"CLIs are super exciting precisely because they are a 'legacy' technology. We don't need to create new formats."
"I just deleted all my MCPs. Skills + CLI is all you need."
Google shipped a Rust CLI for Google Workspace — Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Docs — distributed via npm and skills.sh. Not as an MCP server.
— Google, March 2026. Guillermo Rauch: "2026 is the year of Skills and CLIs"
Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and OpenAI Codex all shell out to CLIs. None of them require feature teams to build MCP servers.
— Industry pattern, 2025–2026
Even if you make a GUI app, add a cli so agents can test the core logic directly - much faster iteration cycles.
@uditj0129 there's a reason I didn't add mcp support to openclaw (except via mcporter mcp-to-cli converter)