Your cli is slightly different than how a LLM uses it. We use 'export' and 'cd' to store state. LLMs dont do that generally.

There is an argument for and against having the model repeat this state.

I'm still on team CLI in that i think even designing an interface from the CLI perspective gets you a better domain interface compared to when you can 'cheat' with the MCP state.

But the thing MCP is just better at is credentials.

The thing that _was_ the dealbreaker between CLI and MCPs is that MCP's couldn't be composed. Maybe `codemode` fixed this; haven't tried enough to say 1 way or another.