Comment by Eldodi
3 hours ago
There are very few stateful MCP Servers out there, and the standard is moving towards stateless by default.
What is really making MCP stand out is:
- oauth integration
- generalistic IA assistants adoption. If you want to be inside ChatGPT or Claude, you can't provide a CLI.
> What is really making MCP stand out is:
> - oauth integration
I don't see a reason a cli can't provide oauth integration flow. Every single language has an oauth client.
> - generalistic IA assistants adoption. If you want to be inside ChatGPT or Claude, you can't provide a CLI.
This is actually a valid point. I solved it by using a sane agent harness that doesn't have artificial restrictions, but I understand that some people have limited choices there and that MCP provides some benefits there.
Same story as SOAP, even a bad standard is better than no standard at all and every vendor rolling out their own half-baked solution.