I am also not sure if MCP will eventually be fixed to allow more control over context, or if the CLI approach really is the future for Agentic AI.

Nevertheless, I prefer the CLI for other reasons: it is built for humans and is much easier to debug.

100% - sharing CLIs with the agent has felt like another channel to interact with them once I’ve done it enough, like a task manager the agent and I can both use using the same interface