Does Gemini/Cursor-agent support resources?

[sins621]

I'm trying to make a silly little tool to enter timesheets at work. The timesheet website accepts post requests in order to make entries and one of the values required in the body is a cost code ID. These are int enums which map as follows:

1. Consulting
2. Software Development
3. Graphic Design
   ...etc

I made a resource that just returns this list as you can see in the image I shared.

I'm hoping to nudge the LLM to ascertain the appropriate cost code ID from the prompt, for example "I worked 4 hours on software development today for x project" and I have my tool setup as follows:

logTool := mcp.NewTool("Log work on timesheet.",
    mcp.WithDescription("Allows for logging work done on timesheets."),
    mcp.WithString(constants.ParamDescription,
        mcp.Required(),
        mcp.Description("Detailed Description of work done, gather information from git history if necessary"),
    ),
    mcp.WithString(constants.ParamDate,
        mcp.Description("Date of the entry with format 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS`, default to today's date if not provided"),
    ),
    mcp.WithNumber(constants.ParamHours,
        mcp.Required(),
        mcp.Description("Hours the user has worked on this entry"),
    ),
    mcp.WithNumber(constants.ParamTaskID,
        mcp.Required(),
        mcp.Description("The ID of the project the user is working on. Can be retrieved from Project ID Tool"),
    ),
    mcp.WithString(constants.ParamCostCodeID,
        mcp.Required(),
        mcp.Description("The relevant Cost Code ID of the work done."),
        mcp.WithStringEnumItems(constants.CostCodeIDs),
    ),
)

Unfortunately though I can't seem to get Gemini/Cursor-Agent to use this resource to look up Cost Codes so my question is 1. Do these agents use resources and 2. Is this the right approach? Would it be simpler to just load the entire list into the Cost Code description?

[corani]

Why not create a second tool to lookup Cost Codes?

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On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM Sins_621 ***@***.***> wrote: I'm trying to make a silly little tool to enter timesheets at work. The timesheet website accepts post requests in order to make entries and one of the values required in the body is a cost code ID. These are int enums which map as follows: 1. Consulting 2. Software Development 3. Graphic Design ...etc I made a resource that just returns this list as you can see in the image I shared. image.png (view on web) <https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0368d76d-0618-42ac-885f-84c9538f1d85> I'm hoping to nudge the LLM to ascertain the appropriate cost code ID from the prompt, for example "I worked 4 hours on software development today for x project" and I have my tool setup as follows: logTool := mcp.NewTool("Log work on timesheet.", mcp.WithDescription("Allows for logging work done on timesheets."), mcp.WithString(constants.ParamDescription, mcp.Required(), mcp.Description("Detailed Description of work done, gather information from git history if necessary"), ), mcp.WithString(constants.ParamDate, mcp.Description("Date of the entry with format 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS`, default to today's date if not provided"), ), mcp.WithNumber(constants.ParamHours, mcp.Required(), mcp.Description("Hours the user has worked on this entry"), ), mcp.WithNumber(constants.ParamTaskID, mcp.Required(), mcp.Description("The ID of the project the user is working on. Can be retrieved from Project ID Tool"), ), mcp.WithString(constants.ParamCostCodeID, mcp.Required(), mcp.Description("The relevant Cost Code ID of the work done."), mcp.WithStringEnumItems(constants.CostCodeIDs), ), ) Unfortunately though I can't seem to get Gemini/Cursor-Agent to use this resource to look up Cost Codes so my question is 1. Do these agents use resources and 2. Is this the right approach? Would it be simpler to just load the entire list into the Cost Code description? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#594>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AADVMB6FO77QIMCDIVILPJT3TMG5ZAVCNFSM6AAAAACG43E22OVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ERDJONRXK43TNFXW4OZYHEYTONJXGA> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

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[sins621]

This is likely the simplest solution and I'm going to give it a try

[sins621]

Given this a go and it works great, still would love to know where resources fit in the grand scheme of things but will mark this as the answer.