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Supposedly, you make a Skill for it, but even that is out of scope for chat agents. I didn't scroll far, but I wouldn't be surprised more people in this thread have made the mistake of giving that answer.


Okay, MCP is useless if the agent has full CLI access, sure. But what if it's a remote cloud agent connecting to another equally remote service. Well, now I need to install said CLI tool. What if I dont want to install a local mcp server either (which was always a stupid idea), and I want for there to be an harness around what the agent can do instead of give it a whole API?

With that said, the total number of applications that should have a MCP before an API is 0, and all that go beyond that threshold are partaking in sin and sacrilege.


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