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Re:I still prefer MCP over skills by notpushkin on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:57AM (#47714519)
I think this is the best of both worlds. Design a sane API (that is easy to consume for both humans and agents), then teach the agents to use it with a skill.

But I agree with the author on custom CLI tooling. I don’t want to install another opaque binary on my machine just to call some API endpoints.

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Re:I still prefer MCP over skills by stingraycharles on Friday April 10, 2026 @03:23AM (#47714728)
Obviously opaque binaries are hardly an improvement over MCP, but providing a few curl + jq oneliners to interact with a REST API works great in my experience. Also means no external scripts, just a single markdown file.
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