alt Hacker NewsI think a most interesting middle ground option is the advent of CLIs specifically with agents in mind.
For example, grafana has a newer CLI called gcx that replaced grafanactl https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/as-code/observabilit...
I originally used the MCP server but after running into context bloat and limitations around MCP I looked and found this. Seems to be a fantastic interface for agents, they breeze through o11y tasks with this thing.
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bhu8 • today at 5:39 PM
For anything with CLI access and permissions CLI >>> MCP, not even close
Also this how most ADEs enable agent messaging and the like
Agreed, had a coworker come to this same conclusion and now only distributes CLIs. I think it’s solid as long as the decision tree of which tools do what is fairly simple. Perhaps MCPs were just overused before