Comment by kstenerud

> Alternative 1: CLI-First Strategy

> Provide CLI -> API -> docs, in that order. LLMs already learned from man pages and StackOverflow.

So how is the agent going to know about your niche CLI? It's still going to use up context to learn your command line interface, same as for an MCP interface.

Agents only excel at CLIs if a particular CLI was part of their training data. The same would be true of well-known MCP interfaces.

> Alternative 2: Skills Pattern

> If MCP is "spreading all menus on the table upfront", Skills is "asking the librarian for only the book you need".

Or: Layer your MCP help commands, like a directory at a mall. The agent only looks up what it needs at the time.