MCP is for when your end user (the one driving an LLM Agent) is non technical. Most non technical people are not going to install a CLI on their computer. Most are not going to be driving the LLM agent via a terminal.

It also very helpful when you need auth. MCP OAuth with CIMD makes it easy instead of cumbersome process of generating API Keys.

If you are technical and already using CLIs, then MCP doesn't give you much.

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edgyquant 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Even with a cli it doesn’t have a nice list of all commands and a nice description of when to call such a tool

	▲	amclennon an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I often find that a lot of models will call the `--help` flag to figure out the commands and arguments nowadays. If I use a cli repeatedly, I'll generally ask it to create a skill