Comment by firasd

Do CLI enjoyers realize that MCP can be called via curl?

For example I have a no-auth clock for AI deployed from https://github.com/firasd/mcpclock to https://mcpclock.firasd.workers.dev/mcp (anyone is welcome to go ahead and add it to your AI apps as an MCP endpoint)

You can still call it via CLI if you're a MCP hater

curl -s -X POST "https://mcpclock.firasd.workers.dev/mcp" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id": 1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"clock_get","arguments":{}}}' event: message data: {"result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"[\n {\n \"timezone\": \"UTC\",\n \"iso\": \"2026-05-30T04:05:07.175Z\",\n \"unixtime\": 1780113907\n },\n {\n \"timezone\": \"Alphadec\",\n \"alphadec\": \"2026_K6G7_066464\"\n }\n]"}]},"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1}

curl -s -X POST "https://mcpclock.firasd.workers.dev/mcp" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id": 1,"method":"tools/list","params":{"name":"","arguments": {}}}' 2>&1 | grep '^data:' | sed 's/^data: //'| jq -r '.result. tools[].name' clock_get clock_day_info clock_convert clock_convert_alphadec clock_convert_unixtime clock_shift_utc clock_delta_utc clock_delta_alphadec

The "just use a CLI" crowd is implicitly assuming:

1) You're a developer 2) On a laptop 3) With a shell open Inside an agentic coding harness (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor) 4) Working on a software project 5) That's like... maybe 2% of AI usage.

The other 98% is: Someone on the ChatGPT iOS app asking a question on the subway; Someone in Claude.ai web chatting about their calendar; Someone using ChatGPT Desktop to summarize their Notion; A non-developer using AI in a browser at work; Voice mode on a phone; An embedded chat widget on some company's website...