no, it's all about auth. MCP lets less-technical people plug their existing tools into agents. They can click through the auth flow in about 10 seconds and everything just works. They cannot run CLIs because they're not running anything locally, they're just using some web app. The creator of the app just needed to support MCP and they got connectivity with just about everything else that supports MCP.

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tptacek 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Write better CLIs for the agents of the less-technical people. The MCPs you're talking about don't exist yet either. This doesn't seem complicated; MCP seems like a real dead end.

	▲	phpnode 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		How are those CLIs being installed and run on hosted services? You'll need to sandbox them and have a way to install them automatically which seems difficult. How does the auth flow work? You'd need to invent some convention or write glue for each service. These are far more complicated than just using MCP, regardless of the benefits of the protocol itself.