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I see this ranting against MCP all the time, and I don't get it, maybe I'm missing something. I'm currently using an MCP in Cursor to give agents read-only acce
by senordevnyc 9mo ago
I see this ranting against MCP all the time, and I don't get it, maybe I'm missing something. I'm currently using an MCP in Cursor to give agents read-only access to my staging and prod databases, as well as BugSnag's MCP so it can look up errors that happen in those environments. It works great. What should I be using for this if not MCP?
- visarga 9mo agoMake a CLI tool for it, of course
- senordevnyc 9mo agoWhat? Why? What advantage does that have over just using an MCP server that exposes tools to run queries?
- nojito 9mo agoContext. Why would I use an MCP when I can use a cli tool that the model likely trained on how to use?
- senordevnyc 9mo agoCan you be more specific about “context”? And not everything has a CLI, but in any case, the comment I was replying to was suggesting building my own CLI, which presumably the LLM wasn’t trained on. Maybe my understanding of MCP is wrong, my assumption is that it’s a combination of a set of documented tools that the LLM can call (which return structured output), and a server that actually receives and processes those tool calls. Is that not right? What’s the downside?
- canadiantim 9mo agoagent skills, or use claude code to iteratively condense an MCP you want to use into only its most essential tools for your workflow
- senordevnyc 9mo agoAgent skills are just a markdown file, what’s in that markdown file in your scenario? And the MCP already only has the most essential tools for my workflow: the ability to run queries against a few databases.