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- Whats an mcp ? Mcp connectors Iv heard ofby legalwarrior
- Probably covers most use cases and is a lot cheaper and safer.by jwally
- Is anyone forcing you to use MCP? You don't need it. If you can't see the benefit of it, don't use it.by owebmaster
- MCP and APIs are extremely similar, but MCP provides a common protocol that everyone can follow, so every agent can use the same protocol regardless of whether the backend uses REST, OpenAPI, or GraphQL. It will just work, and agents know how to crawl other MCPs; therefore, providing an MCP tool makes it much easier for an agent to develop a usage pattern.by poxlr
- I use CLI tools for Git, Atlassian (ACLI), and Metabase, plus custom SigNoz shell scripts to drive API calls instead of an MCP server. This setup works very well at the moment for me.by vpk11