I like that everyone keeps separating "capability" from "authority" because they get conflated in a lot of agent-centered tooling.
CLI vs MCP choice mostly changes the HOW as a side effect. It doesn't answer the bigger question and probably harder one: who delegated the rigtht to cause that effect, for how long, and with what scope? Just like with people, you need a policy decision that's independent. It should be revocable and auditable.
One way that I look at it is with these long-running agents should look less like a script and more like an employee. You wouldn't give them the master key hoping they behave well. You'd give specific access and in stages probably. That's what I think we're missing with our agents is giving them appropriate authority, delegated by an owner with a audit trail
CLI vs MCP choice mostly changes the HOW as a side effect. It doesn't answer the bigger question and probably harder one: who delegated the rigtht to cause that effect, for how long, and with what scope? Just like with people, you need a policy decision that's independent. It should be revocable and auditable.
One way that I look at it is with these long-running agents should look less like a script and more like an employee. You wouldn't give them the master key hoping they behave well. You'd give specific access and in stages probably. That's what I think we're missing with our agents is giving them appropriate authority, delegated by an owner with a audit trail