“I Made MCP 94% Cheaper (And It Only Took One Command)”
https://kanyilmaz.me/2026/02/23/cli-vs-mcp.html
It’s cheaper to just get agents to discover and use cli tools just like humans do. clis ...
MCP isn’t directly competing with CLIs since the former is a protocol. You may want to run your agent in a distroless container without a shell but let it make HTTP requests to whitelisted endpoints for example. MCP is also a tool discovery protocol.