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Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

A Hacker News user is asking who is using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in production, noting that despite early attention, they have not encountered many real-world deployments. The user seeks examples of production use cases and the advantages MCP offers over standard APIs, direct tool integrations, or CLI approaches.

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| |||||||||||| 3 points by | I’ve been following MCP since it first came out. It got a lot of attention early on, but I haven’t come across many people using it in production. I may simply have missed them. If you’re using MCP in production, what are you using it for? What advantages have you found over a normal API or direct tool integration or just CLI? | ||||||||||| |

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