jabber86

It does not have to load all tools. As you are able to hide the details in CLI you can implement the same in MCP server and client.

Just follow the widely accepted pattern (all you need 3 tools in front): - listTools - List/search tools - getToolDetails - Get input arguments for the given tool name - execTool - Execute given tool name with input arguments

HasMCP - Remote MCP framework follows/allows this pattern.

I am creator of HasMCP (my response could have a little bias). Not everyone has home/work computer by preference mostly. I know a lot of people just use iPad or Android tablet in addition to their phone. They still use applications to work on the things. This number is not a small amount of people. They need to access openworld data or service specific data. This is where MCP is still the one of the best ways.

It tries to standardize the auth, messaging, feedback loop where API can't do alone. A CLI app can do for sure but we are talking about a standard maybe the way is something like mcpcli that you can install your phone but still would you really prefer installing bunch of application to your personal device?

Some points that MCP is still not good as of today:

- It does not have a standard to manage context in a good way. You have to find your hack. The mostly accepted one search, add/rm tool. Another one is cataloging the tools.

- lack of client tooling to support elicitation on many clients (it really hurts productivity but this is not solved with cli too)

- lack of mcp-ui adoption (mcp-ui vs openai mcp app)

I would suggest keep building to help you and your users. I am not sponsor of MCP, just sharing my personal opinion. I am also creator HasCLI but kindly biased for MCP then CLI in terms of coverage and standardization.

Great work for learning! It would be super simple to do with HasMCP which would make it 7/24 online remote MCP server based on your API definition. Since your service is also OAuth2 provider, you can provide the client id/secret and your users seamlessly login with your interface.