[dkdcio]

a few reasons:

- agents tend to need (already have) a filesystem anyway to be useful (not technically required but generally true, they’re already running somewhere with a filesystem)

- LLMs have a ton of CLI/filesystem stuff in their training data, while MCP is still pretty new (FUSE is old and boring)

- MCP tends to bloat context (not necessarily true but generally true)

UNIX philosophy is really compelling (moreso than MCP being bad). if you can turn your context into files, agents likely “just work” for your use case

[mbreese]

I’m sympathetic to this idea, but there is no LLM training data for how to access random data like this using a filesystem through a FUSE interface.

Yes, it should be able to generically use a filesystem, but there has to be a better way to find an email than greping through each email as a file.

So, I see merit in the idea in theory, I’m just skeptical in practice.