alt Hacker NewsI often just put direct curl commands in a skill, the agent uses that, and it works perfectly for custom API integrations. Agents are perfectly capable of doing these types of things, and it means the LLM just uses a flexible set of tools to achieve almost anything.
I think this is the best of both worlds. Design a sane API (that is easy to consume for both humans and agents), then teach the agents to use it with a skill.
But I agree with the author on custom CLI tooling. I don’t want to install another opaque binary on my machine just to call some API endpoints.