alt Hacker NewsI am creator of HasMCP (my response could have a little bias). Not everyone has home/work computer by preference mostly. I know a lot of people just use iPad or Android tablet in addition to their phone. They still use applications to work on the things. This number is not a small amount of people. They need to access openworld data or service specific data. This is where MCP is still the one of the best ways.
It tries to standardize the auth, messaging, feedback loop where API can't do alone. A CLI app can do for sure but we are talking about a standard maybe the way is something like mcpcli that you can install your phone but still would you really prefer installing bunch of application to your personal device?
Some points that MCP is still not good as of today:
- It does not have a standard to manage context in a good way. You have to find your hack. The mostly accepted one search, add/rm tool. Another one is cataloging the tools.
- lack of client tooling to support elicitation on many clients (it really hurts productivity but this is not solved with cli too)
- lack of mcp-ui adoption (mcp-ui vs openai mcp app)
I would suggest keep building to help you and your users. I am not sponsor of MCP, just sharing my personal opinion. I am also creator HasCLI but kindly biased for MCP then CLI in terms of coverage and standardization.
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> It tries to standardize the auth, messaging, feedback loop where API can't do alone.
If it tried to do that, you wouldn't have the pain point list.
It's a vibe coded protocol that keeps using one-directional protocols for bi-directional communication, invents its own terms for existing stuff (elicitation lol), didn't even have any auth at the beginnig etc.
It's a slow sad way of calling APIs with JSON-RPC
The biggest disappointment I have with MCP today is that many clients are still half-assed on supporting the functions outside of MCP tools.
Namely, two very useful features resources and prompts have varying levels of support across clients (Codex being one of the worst).
These two are possibly the most powerful ones since they allow consistent, org-level remote delivery of context and I would like to see all major clients support these two and eventually catch up on the other features like elicitation, progress, tasks, etc.