Here's a crazy idea: instead of dealing with MCP servers and distributing all the CLIs for all the platforms, just expose your API... through SSH.

SSH is the perfect protocol for LLMs. Coding agents can use it already, `ssh [email protected] list-users` is all it takes. There's a 90% chance that your users already have ssh installed. It's text-in, text-out (which is exactly what LLMs need). It handles authentication (through public keys), streaming output, interactive I/O, even file transfers (through scp / rsync) if that's something you want.

If your users link their accounts to Github or GitLab, you can even scrape their ssh keys and pre-configure authentication for them, so they just connect and they're in.