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Have you tried using light CLIs rather than MCP? I’ve found that CLIs are just easier for Claude, especially if you write them with Claude and during planning instruct it to think about adding guidance to users who get confused.

Our auth, log diving, infra state, etc, is all usable via cli, and it feels pretty good when pointing Claude at it.

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Yeah if that's possible or you are willing to build it, that's the right solution. Today pretty much all of my integrations are pure CLIs like that rather than MCPs.

You can do anything you want via a CLI but MCP still exists as a standard that folks and platforms might want to adopt as a common interface.

MCPs still lack scoping in most cases.

It's not that practical to have an MCP that can connect to, for example, ALL of your corporate Google Drive. Not happening.

Why isn't it possible to limit it to a specific whitelisted set?

> Why isn't it possible to limit it to a specific whitelisted set?

It is but you need to use an MCP client and servers that implement Roots.

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