Prompts and resources - Cotality developer portal

Beyond its tools, Cotality MCP exposes reusable prompt templates and reference resources for the property data tools. They cost nothing extra to use and encode the calling patterns and domain conventions you would otherwise have to write yourself.

Discovering prompts and resources

Both follow the same request pattern as tools/list.

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "prompts/list"
}

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "prompts/get",
  "params": {
    "name": "property_summary",
    "arguments": {
      "clip": "123456789"
    }
  }
}

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 3,
  "method": "resources/list"
}

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 4,
  "method": "resources/read",
  "params": {
    "uri": "property://info/clip-format"
  }
}

Like tools/list, these calls count against your rate limit. Call them once when the session opens rather than before every tool call.

Prompts

Arguments shown with a default value are optional. All other arguments are required.

MCP prompt arguments are passed as strings. Where an argument is conceptually a number or a list (clips), send it as a string or a JSON scalar — the server coerces it. This is different from tool arguments, which are validated against a strict JSON schema.

CLIP lookup

Prompt	Arguments	Purpose
`property-lookup-by-clip`	`clip`	Look up a property by CLIP and extract address, owner, and location
`property-lookup-by-address`	`address`	Look up a property by street address and extract CLIP, owner, and location

Property characteristics

Prompt	Arguments	Purpose
`property_lookup`	`clips`	Look up detailed characteristics for one or more properties
`property_summary`	`clip`	Concise natural-language summary of a property
`property_comparison`	`clips`	Compare properties side by side
`property_valuation_analysis`	`clips`	Analyze characteristics relevant to valuation and appraisal

Climate and risk

Prompt	Arguments	Purpose
`analyze_property_risk`	`clips`	Comprehensive risk analysis for one or more properties
`climate_risk_report`	`clips`, `time_horizon` (default `all`), `peril_focus` (default `all`)	Detailed climate risk report for chosen perils and horizons
`compare_properties`	`clips`, `comparison_criteria` (default `overall_risk`)	Compare properties to identify best or worst options
`roof_inspection_priority`	`clips`	Prioritize properties for roof inspection by roof age

Prompt names are shown as the servers register them. Unlike tool names, they do not carry a server prefix today, and the two CLIP lookup prompts use hyphens while the rest use underscores. Always use the exact name returned by prompts/list rather than composing one.

Resources

Address a resource by its URI — that is what resources/read takes. The Name column is the display label the server registers; the resource://clip-mcp/info resource registers no explicit label, so it surfaces under its function name.

URI	Name	Format	Contents
`property-analytics://examples/use-cases`	Property Analytics Use Cases	`text/markdown`	Real-world property analytics scenarios
`property-analytics://reference/risk-scoring`	Risk Scoring Guide	`text/markdown`	How to interpret and apply risk scores
`property://info/data-categories`	Data Categories Guide	`text/plain`	The land, structure, and property attribute categories
`property://info/clip-format`	CLIP Format Guide	`text/plain`	CLIP format and usage requirements
`resource://clip-mcp/info`	Server Info	`application/json`	CLIP server version and capabilities

Scopes

Scope enforcement applies to tools only. Prompts and resources are not scope-filtered, so prompts/list and resources/list can return entries for a server whose tools you cannot call.

A prompt being listed does not mean you are entitled to the tools it tells the model to call. Confirm entitlement with tools/list before you build a flow around a prompt.

CLIP tools — resolve an address or CLIP
Property characteristics — structural and land detail
Climate risk analytics — roof age and climate exposure
Market and trend analytics prompts and resources — prompts and resources for the analytics tools
Overview — session lifecycle
Prompting patterns — writing your own prompts

​Discovering prompts and resources

​Prompts

​CLIP lookup

​Property characteristics

​Climate and risk

​Resources

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Discovering prompts and resources

Prompts

CLIP lookup

Property characteristics

Climate and risk

Resources

Scopes

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