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Re:MCP is dead. Long live the CLI by david_shi on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:19AM (#47215556)
Why don't you just have the agent write scripts against the APIs? The skills-based workflow doesn't confine you to bash only.
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Re:MCP is dead. Long live the CLI by brabel on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:48AM (#47216788)
If you do that, you end up with all the problems that MCP attempts to solve: how to authorize using a standard mechanism, how to summarize operations in a better way than just dumping the OpenAPI spec on the LLM, providing structured input/output, providing answers to users that the LLM cannot see (for sensitive data or just avoiding polluting the context) and so on.

Authorization, in my opinion, is the big problem you need MCP for, though the current MCP Authorization spec still needs some refinement.

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Re:MCP is dead. Long live the CLI by david_shi on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:04AM (#47272690)
Broadly agree that authorization is the biggest thing to solve for, but it seems like a Django vs. FastAPI distinction.

MCP in its default state takes up too much context, creating the new for "MCP as code", which seems a bit circular.

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