MCP, or a shell script? The honest comparison
Decided on concrete cases rather than preference. Where a protocol server earns its keep, where a script wins, and the failure that shows up unattended.
mcp
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Skills, tools, and the difference that matters
Progressive disclosure across four tiers: what must be loaded to decide, what loads to execute, and what should never load unless someone asks for it.
Read the status code before you believe the README
Six documented endpoints, two that work. Probing an API's real surface takes a minute and changes the architecture you build on top of it.