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Why a CLI over an MCP or even straight restful API with appropriate schema docs?
by floatrock 25d ago
Why a CLI over an MCP or even straight restful API with appropriate schema docs?
- Syntaf 25d agoI don't have a strong argument for or against using MCP, it honestly comes down to familiarity. In my own opinion, a CLI tool is going to be much more familiar ground for engineers -- I wouldn't expect the 200+ engineers at my company to all have read and understood the paradigms of the MCP protocol but I _would_ expect all of us to have a strong understanding of CLI tools and what a good/bad tool is.
- flumes_whims_ 25d agoMCP clutters the context. Much better to have cli that has --help on subcommands so it can get the parts in needs in the current context.
- dbrecht_ 21d agoFWIW there's work being done on progressive tool discover to help mitigate this, but it's still early and relies on client implementations. https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/2026-07-28/develop/clients/client-best-practices#progressive-tool-discovery https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/2026-07-28/develop/clie...