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0907yesterday at 11:11 PM4 repliesview on HN

I'll kick myself for not remembering, but there was a fantastic article which suggested that MCP works at org level when unified, safe, access to internal utility APIs need to be given to non-technical staff who do use internal agent tools. Codify your workflow(s) via skills and share across instances, anything that needs context aware API access should be mcp...


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geysersamtoday at 8:47 AM

But what is the advantage of MCP compared to having the agents access the API directly?

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bb88yesterday at 11:23 PM

So is this in lieu of using permissions to protect apis? Because it seems like API's should have some kind of permission mechanism around them anyway.

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gk1yesterday at 11:15 PM

Exactly right. Co’s like Runlayer are growing like wild exactly for this reason. Without a central control plane MCP is a minefield.

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