Comment by throwaway314155
5 hours ago
1.) Awareness doesn’t mean they will use it. And in practice they often don’t use them.
2.) “ unlike cli tools or APIs you don't have to constantly remind it what MCPs it has available” - this doesn’t match my experience. In fact, bash commands are substantially more discoverable.
3.) Again, this doesn’t match my experience and the major providers recommend including available MCP tools in system prompts/CLAUDE.md/whatever.
4.) Can’t speak to this as it’s not part of my workflow for the previous reasons.
The only useful MCP for me is Playwright for front end work.
Chrome Devtools is similarly an extremely high value MCP for me.
I would agree that if you don't find they add discoverability then MCPs would have no value for you and be worse than cli tools. It sounds like we have had very opposite experiences here.
Interesting. Perhaps it comes down to which platforms we're working on. I don't want to be outright dismissive of it. My primary platform is Claude Code. Are you working with another driver e.g. OpenAI Codex?