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geysersam
28d ago
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But what is the advantage of MCP compared to having the agents access the API directly?
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0x000xca0xfe
28d ago
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Agents are just a stream of text, they cannot access anything. Some kind of interpreter is needed that recognizes special patterns and runs real code.
Do you mean directly == raw shell access on your production server?
geysersam
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28d ago
All agents have some basic tool capabilities, I meant using tools such as curl or python etc to access an api, the same way a human would.
tiborsaas
27d ago
MPC comes with built in documentation over an API. Thanks to this agents can use it "intuitively".
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