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by troupo 15 days ago
> One advantage is the MCP advertises itself to the agent with its schema and api shape.

So, OpenAPI/Swagger for REST? GraphQL? SOAP schemas? All of these (and more) exist. What does MCP add that these don't have?
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fnordpiglet 13 days ago
I’m confused by the question. You listed a bunch of standards over time, all of which reach to solve a similar problem (you left off XDR/RPC, CORBA, and about 10000 others), and unironically ask why is there a n+1 standard? Are you genuinely confused?

https://xkcd.com/927

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troupo 13 days ago
You wouldn't be confused if you actually tried to understand what I was saying. .

Your claim was: "One advantage is the MCP advertises itself to the agent with its schema and api shape".

This "advantage" has already existed, as you correctly pointed out, in about 10000 other standards and protocols. MCP is not special, and doesnmt have some advantage. It's a vibe-coded hype-driven n+1 standard that is busy ignoring anything that came before it, for no reason.

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