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I've tried many MCPs, but have yet to find any that are actually useful. It seems it's generally better to just have the agent run CLI commands and maybe use so

I've tried many MCPs, but have yet to find any that are actually useful. It seems it's generally better to just have the agent run CLI commands and maybe use some skills. From what I can find, MCPs are nothing but bloat. Is anyone aware of any truly useful MCPs that doesn't work better and less bloaty by skipping the MCP part?

sajithdilshan 25d ago
Depends on what tool you use. As an example for github gh is way more efficient than using the github MCP because the training data of LLM actually contains gh documentation and how to use it. However, if you have a very niche command tool or a work related internal tool, LLM has no idea on how to use it and it could waste a lot of tokens by trying to figure out what works and what doesn't and how to use it in every session. That's where MCP comes in handy. LLMs are trained to use the MCP protocol and it can efficiently figure out which tool to be called and how to process the output when a niche command tool is exposed via an MCP.