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Simple question: why not a cli instead? As seems that lately LLM and agentic tools seems to be better at using clis rather than bloated MCPs?
by tarasyarema 8mo ago
Simple question: why not a cli instead? As seems that lately LLM and agentic tools seems to be better at using clis rather than bloated MCPs?
- NicuCalcea 8mo agoI think they're only better for CLI tools that are in the training data. If it's a new tool, you'd need to dump the full documentation in the context either way.
- stingraycharles 8mo agoThis is what I was thinking, or fewer, more versatile tools. Having the description of 110 tools in your context window at all times is just noise.
- esafak 8mo agoBecause it was started before the revelation MCP was a context hog. https://github.com/LaurieWired/GhidraMCP https://github.com/LaurieWired/GhidraMCP
- somnium_sn 8mo agoTools like Claude Code have improved here. They won’t load all tools but instead rely on tool search. Context bloat of MCP servers was a thing if badly written clients but it’s certainly getting better