What does resolveThing do?

Resolve a Thing by name, or create it if none matches: the anti-duplicate mint for the identity ledger. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

How do I use resolveThing from Claude or ChatGPT?

Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "who/what is X", and it calls resolveThing.

Is resolveThing safe to let an AI call?

resolveThing changes your workspace. What an AI creates is Private until you share it.

Thing Ledger

`resolveThing`

Resolve Thing

Resolve a Thing by name, or create it if none matches: the anti-duplicate mint for the identity ledger.

write

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "who/what is X", and it calls resolveThing.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {
    "name": "<name>",
    "type": "<type>"
  },
  "name": "resolveThing"
}

Arguments

namestringrequiredThe Thing's canonical name: how you'd refer to it.
typestringrequiredThe kind of Thing: e.g. "person", "repo", "product", "model", "place". Open vocabulary.
aliasesstring[]optionalOther names this Thing answers to: sharpens resolution.
externalRefsobject[]optionalStrong identity signals (repo slug, URL, handle, ISBN). The most reliable way to avoid a duplicate.

Returns

Resolution matches names, aliases, and external refs first, so a confident match returns the EXISTING Thing (never a duplicate); only a genuine miss creates a new one.

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

who/what is X
track this repo/person/product
make sure X exists

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

Questions

What does resolveThing do?
Resolve a Thing by name, or create it if none matches: the anti-duplicate mint for the identity ledger. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.
How do I use resolveThing from Claude or ChatGPT?
Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "who/what is X", and it calls resolveThing.
Is resolveThing safe to let an AI call?
resolveThing changes your workspace. What an AI creates is Private until you share it.

Connect

One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.