alt Hacker NewsWhile I generally prefer CLI over MCP locally, this is bad outdated information.
The major harnesses like Claude Code + Codex have had tool search for months now.
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amzil • today at 4:03 PM
Fair point on tool search. Claude Code and Codex do have it.
But tool search is solving the symptom, not the cause. You still pay the per-tool token cost for every tool the search returns. And you've added a search step (with its own latency and token cost) before every tool call.
With a CLI, the agent runs `--help` and gets 50-200 tokens of exactly what it needs. No search index, no ranking, no middleware. The binary is the registry.
Tool search makes MCP workable. CLIs make the search unnecessary.
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Can you explain how to take advantage. Is there any specific info from anthropic with regards to context window size and not having to care about MCP?