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I think he’s saying that’s it’s dense and _too_ full of meaning. So, while terse, it can also hide extra meaning in its density.

No, but MCPs aren’t free to build either. So if you need to build an API on top, why would you build an MCP instead of using one of the existing standards that both LLMs and humans already know how to work with?

But the agent harness is still handling the session token for you either way. MCP might be an easy way for agent harness creators to abstract the issue away, but I don’t want to lose all REST conventions just to make it a little easier for them to write an agent harness.

It makes it harder for the LLM to understand what’s going on, not easier.

All MCP adds is a session token. How is that not already a solved problem?

Isn’t that point of design docs and not the commit log?

Yup. I’ve been using CLIs with skills that define some common workflows I use and then just tell Claude to use —help for understanding how to use it. Works perfectly and I end up writing the documentation in a way that I would for any other developer.

How do you manage auth for services that use OAuth?

I’ve been wrapping the agent’s curl calls in a small cli that handles the auth but I’m wondering if other people have come up with something lighter/more portable.

This is what I’ve been doing too. Give the LLM a link to an OAS for an API and let it use curl for everything after that. I don’t even wrap the API or use restish all, the LLM knows how to use curl well enough.

This lets me add quick skills that are essentially just: “this is the OAS link, this is how you store and use the authorization, this is when I want you to use it”. That combined with pointing it at the documentation for common workflows and usage examples, and it’s been great.

The only thing I’ve had trouble with is auth really. MCPs are treated as first class citizens by most model provider’s agents and trying to provide a shell-based alternative for hiding the secret credentials from the LLM has been difficult.

But _T_wo is also before _F_our

Why can’t he discriminate on political affiliation?

I don’t believe you’re being against a specific person, so you don’t have a 1-1 incentive based on the bet you’re placing.

My cattle dog will be begging for food and giving me all the looks that she's hungry, but if I put a bowl of food down and then grabbed a ball she wouldn't give the bowl a second glance. I can't even give her a treat for bringing the ball back and dropping it, she's too focused on the ball. As soon as I put the ball away, she'll do anything I want for the treat. I think she considers the ball her job and it overrides anything else.

I think the most likely case is that electricity prices go down but demand goes up as devices more eagerly use power so you end up with an electricity bill that stays consistent.

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky explores exactly this, though less lost and more accidental exalter.

Isn’t that what government grants essentially already are?