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mmasutoday at 6:19 AM2 repliesview on HN

In enterprise MCP allows users to access resources that could either be unsafe or impractical to consume via API or CLI. It is a powerful pattern, supported by virtually all clients (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, whatever) and easily implemented in custom harnesses. If you don’t need it you don’t, but it has many useful applications. Stateless will make it a lot more practical to expand applications.


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cheezetoday at 7:52 AM

What is an example of something that is unsafe to consume via API or CLI?

Isn't MCP _an API_?

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DarkNova6today at 8:25 AM

I don't get it. I thought the advantage is that you have a client as a library with integrated auth & other tech stuff handled so you can just focus on using the API? Because otherwise you could just use REST with basic endpoint code.