Yeah, it might be useful for some people to stop thinking about MCP in relation to agentic harnesses. Think more about environments you don't control, such as Claude Web or ChatGPT. MCP is just a standard (fallible like most standards) but has gained traction and likely to stick around. Extremely useful for non technical people if all their apps/agents are communicating with each other (mcp).

Useful for service providers who want to expose themselves to technical consumers without having to write custom sdk's that consume their restful/graphql endpoints.

The best implementation of MCP is when you won't even hear about it.

I definitely agree that it is currently pretty shit and unnecessary for agentic coding, cli's or some other solutions will come along. (the premise being the same though, searchable/discoverable and executable tools in your agentic harness is likely going to be a very good thing instead of having to document in claude.md which os and cli specific commands it should run (even though this seems far more powerful and sensible at this point in time))