This is my favorite position, the advantage of an MCP tends to lie more in token optimization.
In what way?
Not sure whats the norm nowadays, but it used to be MCP descriptions were loaded in from the start.
In any case, to be cheaper the `cli --help` command needs to more noisy than the json description.
Finally, and the really big one: cli can be composed with `grep`, `jq` , etc.
On the contrary, you burn more tokens with MCP.
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In what way?
Not sure whats the norm nowadays, but it used to be MCP descriptions were loaded in from the start.
In any case, to be cheaper the `cli --help` command needs to more noisy than the json description.
Finally, and the really big one: cli can be composed with `grep`, `jq` , etc.