But what is the advantage of MCP compared to having the agents access the API directly?
Agents are just a stream of text, they cannot access anything. Some kind of interpreter is needed that recognizes special patterns and runs real code.
Do you mean directly == raw shell access on your production server?
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Agents are just a stream of text, they cannot access anything. Some kind of interpreter is needed that recognizes special patterns and runs real code.
Do you mean directly == raw shell access on your production server?