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Resources and prompts

Resources

Static guides are cached by clients for 24 hours, derived references for one hour (ttlMs on each read; cacheScope is always public)1.

URI Kind Content
neon://guide/agent-workflow static The five-call recipe (search → availability → files → download → cite), input rules, error remedies
neon://guide/api-token static Which endpoints need a token, how to set it, rate limits
neon://guide/citing-neon-data static Data policy and the citation templates neon_get_citation renders
neon://guide/product-code-anatomy static Product codes, packages, the file-name grammar, releases and PROVISIONAL
neon://reference/vocabularies static Valid filter values: themes, teams, domains, taxon types, location types, releases, file kinds
neon://reference/graphql-schema static Root fields, inputs and object fields for neon_graphql
neon://reference/sites derived All 81 field sites with codes, names, domains, states and coordinates
neon://reference/releases derived Every release with its date and product count, plus the latest tag

Resource templates

Template Reads as
neon://products/{productCode} the neon_get_product result
neon://sites/{siteCode} the neon_get_site result (with products)
neon://releases/{release} the neon_get_release result

An unknown URI is a JSON-RPC -32602 error with data.code = "not_found" and data.didYouMean.

Prompts

Prompt Arguments Steers the agent to
neon_find_data question (required), region, timeframe, organism_or_variable search products and sites, check availability, size the data (with a token) and cite
neon_cite_dataset product (required), release, site_codes produce citation text and BibTeX, with the provisional caveat when needed
neon_plan_download product, sites, start_month (required), end_month, package check the token, availability and size, then download (stdio) or hand back URLs, and cite

  1. Model Context Protocol specification, 2026-07-28. https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28