MCP vs Shell

I&rsquo;m a fan of the Code Mode approach - i.e. letting agents run code rather than narrow functions. Many people agree: CircleCI , Perplexity , etc. In fact, mcp2cli gives MCPs a CLI interface. I feel the main reason is UNIX composability. I can run CLI commands in a loop, pipe them, etc. I tested it out on ChatGPT. ChatGPT has an @Gmail Plugin . I build a Local MCP Server that exposes my CLIs,…