Comment by AlphaSite
19 hours ago
its mostly because MCPs handle auth in a standardised way and give you a framework you can layer things like auth, etc on top of.
Without it youre stuck with the basic http firewall, etc which is extremely dangerous and this is maybe the 1 opportunity we have to do this.
And people forget, Claude Code isn’t the only Claude surface, and CLIs don’t help in other surfaces other than Cowork.