I see this ranting against MCP all the time, and I don't get it, maybe I'm missing something. I'm currently using an MCP in Cursor to give agents read-only access to my staging and prod databases, as well as BugSnag's MCP so it can look up errors that happen in those environments. It works great. What should I be using for this if not MCP?
replyMake a CLI tool for it, of course
replyWhat? Why? What advantage does that have over just using an MCP server that exposes tools to run queries?
replyagent skills, or use claude code to iteratively condense an MCP you want to use into only its most essential tools for your workflow
replyAgent skills are just a markdown file, what’s in that markdown file in your scenario?
replyAnd the MCP already only has the most essential tools for my workflow: the ability to run queries against a few databases.