I keep reading these unfair comparisons mixing many different problems into a naive story in favour of clis.
First of all no one should still consider connecting mcps directly to agents, this is completely outdated, you connect mcps and tools to a single gateway that has an api, handles federation, auditing, prolicies and much more. A good gateway exposes a tiny minimal context with just instructions how to query what is available and has a configurable "eager" flag for the things that should be put eagerly into the context for certain agent profiles.
Secondly many many mcp servers are outdated as they were build for way dumber models than what we have today and will have overly heavy context and descriptions that slow down and degrade the current frontier models. If you compare a cli to a state of the art agent gateway setup with adjustments for the current models, you will find that the only advantage for clis is operational complexity.
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