Mcp

Here’s a question I got asked recently: If a skill can already call a REST API using Bash, why bother with MCP? The surface-level answer is “MCP is cleaner.” That’s not wrong, but it undersells what’s actually different - and I think it’s a genuinely useful distinction to understand if you’re serious about building reliable agent workflows. Also, common-sense needs a resurgence given the massive amount of all old things are DEAD when new thing comes out clickbait that is proliferating on LinkedIn.

If you’ve spent any time building with MCP servers, you know the drill. You start with one server, maybe two. Then suddenly you’re juggling a dozen configurations across three different LLM clients, and your claude_desktop_config.json looks like it was written during a caffeine-fueled fever dream. That’s roughly where I was when I started building gridctl.