alt Hacker NewsIf everyone had a clear spec with high signal to noise and good documentation that explains in an agent-friendly way how to use all the endpoints while still being parsimonious with tokens and not polluting the context, then yes we wouldn't need MCP...
Instructing people how to do that amounts to a standard in any case. Might as well specify the request format and authentication while you're at it.
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BerislavLopac • last Thursday at 12:53 PM
So you're basically saying: "nobody is using the standard that we have defined, let's solve this by introducing a new standard". Fair enough.
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I don’t get your point. Obviously some spec is needed but why does it have to be MCP?
if I want my api to work with an llm id create a spec with swagger. But why do I have to go with mcp? What is it adding additionally that didn’t exist in other spec?