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Comment by ejholmes

5 hours ago

I always get a kick out of seeing MCP wrappers around CLI’s.

In my experience, a skill is better suited for this instead of an MCP.

If you don’t want the agent to probe the CLI when it needs it, a skill can describe the commands, arguments and flags so the agent can use them as needed.

They make a big difference. For example if you use the Jira cli, most LLMs aren’t trained on it. A simple MCP wrapper makes a huge difference in usability unless you’re okay having the LLM poke and prod a bunch of different commands

  • Do you mean wrap the CLI with an MCP? I don't get that approach. I wrapped the Jira cli with a skill. It's taken a few iterations to dial it in but it works pretty damn well now.

    I'm good, yet my coworkers keep having problems using the Atlassian MCP.