# Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar: MCPs are better than CLIs for most integrations > Source: > Published: 2026-09-17 09:42:49+00:00 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