The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...]
Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the API and nothing else. That’d still be a win.
— [Sean Lynch](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592163#48593190), comment on Hacker News
Tags: [model-context-protocol](https://simonwillison.net/tags/model-context-protocol), [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms), [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [skills](https://simonwillison.net/tags/skills)
source & further reading
simonwillison.net — original article
Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette
datasette-acl 0.6a0
GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM