AI developers choosing CLI over MCP for agents to reduce token costs

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A developer team has removed nearly half of their MCP servers for AI agents after months of use. They found Model Context Protocol adds unnecessary layers of process, schema, and authentication maintenance. Modern AI models like Claude and Gemini already excel at using CLI tools through --help commands. The team now defaults to CLI tools with JSON output and clear error codes, reserving MCP for specific exceptions.

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