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Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar: MCPs are better than CLIs for most integrations

Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar said on X that MCPs are better than CLIs for most integrations, citing improved model tool calling, deferred tools, and MCP now being stateless. Shihipar added that the one remaining issue with MCP is piping local file data into them, where CLIs still work better, and advised adding params like query to MCP tools for composing or filtering data.

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Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar: MCPs are better than CLIs for most integrations
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Thariq on X: "I was not expecting things to go this way, but I think MCPs are better than CLIs for most integrations. The models have gotten much better at tool calling, we can defer tools & MCP is now stateless.

If you need to compose/filter data, add params like query to your MCP tools." / X Thariq on X: "I was not expecting things to go this way, but I think MCPs are better than CLIs for most integrations. The models have gotten much better at tool calling, we can defer tools & MCP is now stateless.

If you need to compose/filter data, add params like query to your MCP tools." I was not expecting things to go this way, but I think MCPs are better than CLIs for most integrations. The models have gotten much better at tool calling, we can defer tools & MCP is now stateless.

If you need to compose/filter data, add params like query to your MCP tools. I was not expecting things to go this way, but I think MCPs are better than CLIs for most integrations. The models have gotten much better at tool calling, we can defer tools & MCP is now stateless.

If you need to compose/filter data, add params like query to your MCP tools. The one remaining issue I have with MCP is piping local file data into them, CLIs work a bit better there Aside from that yeah MCPs mog CLIs in so many ways

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