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19th June 2026
The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...]
Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the API and nothing else. That’d still be a win.
— Sean Lynch, comment on Hacker News
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