diff --git a/php/src/Mcp/Controllers/McpApiController.php b/php/src/Mcp/Controllers/McpApiController.php
index 38ba2e8..f05001a 100644
--- a/php/src/Mcp/Controllers/McpApiController.php
+++ b/php/src/Mcp/Controllers/McpApiController.php
@@ -379,16 +379,27 @@ protected function resourceServerContent(string $scheme, string $uri): ?array
     }
 
     /**
-     * Resolve the bound agent resource provider, if the agent module supplies one.
+     * Resolve the bound agent resource provider, if a module supplies one.
      *
-     * Absent when this package is installed without dappcore/agent, which is a
+     * Absent when this package is installed without an agent module, which is a
      * legitimate deployment — the protocol surface stands on its own and the
      * agent resources are an optional extension to it.
      *
+     * Structural, not nominal. AgentResourceProvider states the contract and a
+     * provider that can name the interface should implement it, but
+     * dappcore/agent maintains its own copy of Core\Mcp rather than depending
+     * on this package, so it cannot reference the interface to implement it.
+     * Requiring `instanceof` would therefore have left these endpoints dead
+     * permanently rather than until the binding landed — an interim that never
+     * ends is a decision, so it is made here: bind under the interface name and
+     * satisfy its two methods, and the endpoints work either way.
+     *
+     * @return object|null A read() provider, or null when unbound
+     *
      * @example
      * $provider = $this->agentResourceProvider();
      */
-    protected function agentResourceProvider(): ?AgentResourceProvider
+    protected function agentResourceProvider(): ?object
     {
         if (! app()->bound(AgentResourceProvider::class)) {
             return null;
@@ -396,7 +407,17 @@ protected function agentResourceProvider(): ?AgentResourceProvider
 
         $provider = app(AgentResourceProvider::class);
 
-        return $provider instanceof AgentResourceProvider ? $provider : null;
+        if (! is_object($provider)) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        if ($provider instanceof AgentResourceProvider) {
+            return $provider;
+        }
+
+        // Duck-typed fallback: read() is the whole contract this package
+        // consumes, so it is the whole check.
+        return method_exists($provider, 'read') ? $provider : null;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/php/src/Mcp/Resources/Contracts/AgentResourceProvider.php b/php/src/Mcp/Resources/Contracts/AgentResourceProvider.php
index ac7bb18..34260eb 100644
--- a/php/src/Mcp/Resources/Contracts/AgentResourceProvider.php
+++ b/php/src/Mcp/Resources/Contracts/AgentResourceProvider.php
@@ -21,19 +21,22 @@
  * Nothing is bound when the agent module is absent, and the controller answers
  * "unavailable" rather than pretending — the resources are optional to this
  * package, not to the protocol.
+ *
+ * read() only, deliberately. An earlier draft also required entries() for
+ * listing, which nothing here ever called: this package's
+ * GET servers/{id}/resources lists a server's own configured resources, a
+ * different concept. A contract method with no consumer is over-specification
+ * that an implementer has to satisfy for nothing, so it is not asked for.
+ * Providers are free to offer listing for their own transports —
+ * dappcore/agent's registry does, for its stdio server.
+ *
+ * Satisfied structurally as well as nominally: a provider that cannot name this
+ * interface (because it maintains its own copy of Core\Mcp rather than
+ * depending on this package) binds under the interface name and implements
+ * read(), and McpApiController accepts it.
  */
 interface AgentResourceProvider
 {
-    /**
-     * Entries to advertise when listing resources.
-     *
-     * @return array<int, array{uri: string, name: string, description: string, mimeType: string}>
-     *
-     * @example
-     * $provider->entries(); // [['uri' => 'plans://all', ...]]
-     */
-    public function entries(): array;
-
     /**
      * Read one resource, or null when nothing serves that URI.
      *
diff --git a/php/tests/Feature/AgentResourceProviderBindingTest.php b/php/tests/Feature/AgentResourceProviderBindingTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ee8e9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/php/tests/Feature/AgentResourceProviderBindingTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+<?php
+
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: EUPL-1.2
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace Core\Mcp\Tests\Feature;
+
+use Core\Mcp\Controllers\McpApiController;
+use Core\Mcp\Resources\Contracts\AgentResourceProvider;
+use Tests\TestCase;
+
+/**
+ * The provider is resolved structurally, not nominally.
+ *
+ * dappcore/agent maintains its own copy of Core\Mcp rather than depending on
+ * this package, so it cannot name AgentResourceProvider in an implements
+ * clause. Requiring instanceof would leave the plans:// and sessions://
+ * endpoints dead permanently rather than until a binding arrived.
+ */
+class AgentResourceProviderBindingTest extends TestCase
+{
+    private function resolve(): ?object
+    {
+        $controller = new class extends McpApiController
+        {
+            public function provider(): ?object
+            {
+                return $this->agentResourceProvider();
+            }
+        };
+
+        return $controller->provider();
+    }
+
+    public function test_provider_good_accepts_a_duck_typed_binding(): void
+    {
+        // No implements clause — exactly what a package that cannot name the
+        // interface is able to bind.
+        $this->app->bind(AgentResourceProvider::class, fn (): object => new class
+        {
+            public function read(string $uri): ?array
+            {
+                return ['uri' => $uri, 'mimeType' => 'text/markdown', 'text' => '# Plan'];
+            }
+        });
+
+        $provider = $this->resolve();
+
+        $this->assertNotNull($provider);
+        $this->assertSame('# Plan', $provider->read('plans://all')['text']);
+    }
+
+    public function test_provider_good_accepts_a_nominal_implementation(): void
+    {
+        $this->app->bind(AgentResourceProvider::class, fn (): AgentResourceProvider => new class implements AgentResourceProvider
+        {
+            public function read(string $uri): ?array
+            {
+                return null;
+            }
+        });
+
+        $this->assertInstanceOf(AgentResourceProvider::class, $this->resolve());
+    }
+
+    public function test_provider_bad_rejects_an_object_without_read(): void
+    {
+        // Half a contract would fatal mid-request; the controller must see
+        // nothing rather than something unusable.
+        $this->app->bind(AgentResourceProvider::class, fn (): object => new class
+        {
+            public function somethingElse(): void {}
+        });
+
+        $this->assertNull($this->resolve());
+    }
+
+    public function test_provider_ugly_is_null_when_nothing_is_bound(): void
+    {
+        // The package installed without any agent module — a legitimate deploy.
+        $this->assertNull($this->resolve());
+    }
+}