alt Hacker NewsI 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.
Obviously opaque binaries are hardly an improvement over MCP, but providing a few curl + jq oneliners to interact with a REST API works great in my experience. Also means no external scripts, just a single markdown file.