- CLI tools don't have standardized auth, nor do they have granular tool permissions. MCP does
- CLI tools need to access your secrets in your .env. With MCP the model never sees the secrets and refresh tokens.
- CLI tools don't have auditing and telemetry. MCP provides all this for free.
- CLI tools imply full bash access, a nightmare in terms of security and very costly if you have to spin up a machine for every request for billions of users.
- CLI tools need to access your secrets in your .env. With MCP the model never sees the secrets and refresh tokens.
- CLI tools don't have auditing and telemetry. MCP provides all this for free.
- CLI tools imply full bash access, a nightmare in terms of security and very costly if you have to spin up a machine for every request for billions of users.
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