[dirk94018]

MCP is a bit of a rube goldberg machine. Unix solved that problem. Pipe text in, get text out, discover capabilities incrementally. The fact that we need benchmarks to prove CLIs use fewer tokens than dumping 55k of JSON schema upfront is embarrassing. toast is just pipe stuff to an LLM and let stdin/stdout be the protocol. No schema tax, no connection lifecycle, no tool registry middleware to manage your middleware. The thing is that AIs are just not good at outputting structure, like people, json isn't natural.