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by kordlessagain 62 days ago
Nobody said anything about an API with thousands of endpoints. Does that even exist? I've never seen it. Wouldn't work on it if I had seen it. Such is the life of a strawman argument.

Further, isn't a decorator in Python (like @mcp.tool) the easy way to expose what is needed to an API, if even if all we are doing is building a bridge to another API? That becomes a simple abstraction layer, which most people (and LLMs) get.

Writing a CLI for an existing API is a fool's errand.
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CuriouslyC 62 days ago
Cloudflare wrote a blog post about this exact case. The cloud providers and their CLIs are the canonical example, so 100% not a strawman.
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locknitpicker 62 days ago
> Writing a CLI for an existing API is a fool's errand.

I don't think your opinion is reasonable or well grounded. A CLI app can be anything including a script that calls Curl. With a CLI app you can omit a lot of noise from the context things like authentication, request and response headers, status codes, response body parsing, etc. you call the tool, you get a response, done. You'd feel foolish to waste tokens parsing irrelevant content that a deterministic script can handle very easily.

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