Benefit of mcp is that it exists and kinda works, and a lot of tools are available on it. I guess it's all about adoption. But inherently yeah it's a discovery service thingy. Google will never embrace mcp since it's invented by anthropic

I consider it a good first attempt, but indeed hope for a sort of mcp2.0

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fergie 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Right, but surely swagger/openapi has been providing robust API discovery for years? I just don't get what LLMs don't like about it (apart from it possibly using slightly more tokens than MCP)

	▲	theshrike79 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		MCP is like "this is what the API is about, figure it out". You can also change the server side pretty liberally and the agent will figure it out. Swagger/OpenAPI is "this is EXACTLY what the API does, if you don't do it like this, you will fail". If you change something, things will start falling apart.