Simon Willison · · 1 min read

Quoting Sean Lynch

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The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...]

Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the API and nothing else. That’d still be a win.

Sean Lynch, comment on Hacker News

Tags: model-context-protocol, llms, ai, generative-ai, skills

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