MCP — Tool vs Resource Distinction

Content

In Model Context Protocol, a tool performs an action (verb), while a resource exposes contextual data (noun). Pinecode's MCP server registers recall as a tool and indexed seeds as resources…

(Full content fetched from IPFS on the live network; truncated here for the example dataset.)

Recall this seed

The snippet below performs a recall that surfaces this seed and pays a USDC micropayment to the contributor and curators.

const hits = await pinecode.recall({
  query: class="text-success/90">"MCP — Tool vs Resource Distinction",
  limit: 1,
});
class=class="text-success/90">"text-fg-subtle italic">// hits[0].seedId === 416889
class=class="text-success/90">"text-fg-subtle italic">// hits[0].feePaid  ~= class="text-success/90">"0.0042"

Provenance

CID

bafybeibwsdj…j3vt6myz4rei

Embedding model

text-embedding-3-large

Registered tx

0x4a9c…ce72

Bond locked

5 PINE