Comment by narvidas
5 hours ago
Could you elaborate on this thought? MCP vs CLI feels very much like a Apples/Oranges comparison, without additional context.
5 hours ago
Could you elaborate on this thought? MCP vs CLI feels very much like a Apples/Oranges comparison, without additional context.
MCP makes a lot, lot more sense when you think of it as as a auth standard and not a comparison with CLIs. It obviously does more than just auth, but having standardised auth (which CLIs definitely do not) is the real 'killer' feature.
Yep, that was exactly my point with the ask to elaborate.
MCPs and CLIs feel like two wholly different things. Contrasting them feels even more confusing than comparing Skills vs MCPs, which would also be wrong in my personal view. Different runtime requirements, different access patterns, different distribution, different discoverability.
I agree with @martinanld that MCPs, especially with the advent of EMA, are a completely different beast thanks to a structured way for auth and access control.