I agree. MCP is clearly better than CLI for most integrations. It felt that way early on, and it still does now. And frontier models keep getting better at it.
If you build custom harnesses, use MCP tools.
My meta harnesses use MCP for all external 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 c...