alt Hacker NewsMCP really only makes sense for chatbots that don’t want to have per session runtime environments. In that context, MCP makes perfect sense. It’s just an adapter between an LLM and an API. If you have access to an execution engine, then yes CLI + skills is superior.
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9dev • today at 8:05 AM
Only is doing a lot of work here. There are tons of use cases aside from local coding assistants, e.g., non-code related domain specific agentic systems; these don’t even necessarily have to be chatbots.
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actually local MCP just spawns a subprocess and talks via stdin/stdout.. same as CLI tool. Extra layer is only for remote case.
This might help if interested - https://vectree.io/c/implementation-details-of-stdio-and-sse...