Phil Gerity

@chrysb @openclaw cli and api are great. maybe we're just at a moment in time though...why wouldn't the future be a hyrbid of those + mcp, dom, cua, skills, etc? we should assume the kinks get worked out of all these tools. then let the llm choose the best tool for the job.

unpopular (maybe?) opinion: MCP is dead in the water @openclaw has shown me that api & cli will win. every MCP server you connect loads its tool definitions into your context window. name, description, parameter schema, all of it. connect 10 servers with 5 tools each and you've burned 50 tool definitions worth of tokens before your conversation even starts. context bloat will never be a good thing - performance-wise or economically. i assume this is why @steipete left it out of @openclaw. the "exec" tool paired with on-demand skills is all you need. it can run any command invented since the beginning of computers. a resurgence of glory for ancient, but powerful tools like curl, sed, awk, grep. command line tools once mastered by the greats, but long forgotten and buried underneath abstractions developed for us lesser mortals. now available to us all, piloted by the smartest models on earth. every founder gets their own mass army of greybeards. the inertia required for MCP adoption, imo, is too great to overcome the momentum @openclaw has breathed into api + cli + skills. the common defenses people bring up: • "MCP gives you typed schemas and validation" — so does a well-documented CLI • "MCP gives you explicit permissions" — so does a sandbox with an allowlist • "MCP is a standard" — a standard that scales poorly is still a standard that scales poorly lastly, i've heard many MCP servers are just wrapping existing APIs - that kind of redundancy and unnecessary indirection should be a red flag. so, let's drop it and redirect our efforts into cli tools & apis with accompanying skills.

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