[frabjoused]

The success rate of this is impractically low. APIs are dirty, inconsistent things. Real-world connection to obscure APIs is a matter of hard sleuthing. Docs are wrong, endpoints are broken, auth is a nightmare. These APIs need to be massaged in advance and given a sanity-wrapper if you want any semblance of reliable success when a model calls them.

[nostrebored]

Wouldn’t you just do that with an SDK? Why the extra layer of complexity with MCP?

[frabjoused]

Not all http based APIs have an SDK. It’s wildly inconsistent. And when you ask the llm to do something new, does it download the SDK on the fly?

[SkyPuncher]

Personally, I’ve found the SDKs worse in almost all cases.