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kasey_junktoday at 4:40 AM1 replyview on HN

Environments where it’s hard to install and configure cli tools and where you want oauth flows.

That is mcp for coding agents is dumb. For gui apps installed at non-cli using non-permissive endpoints it makes a lot of sense.


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tptacektoday at 4:44 AM

Right, this is the part of the problem I get, but a universal meta-API seems like they're overshooting it by a lot.