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A split-frame editorial illustration titled MCP vs CLI on a cream background. The left side shows a JSON config snippet with an exposed PASSWORD field highlighted in red, and a cluster of service tiles (database, browser, ticket, cloud, chat) each tagged with a red API_KEY warning, all tangled into a central MCP SERVER box. The right side shows a clean terminal with commands cf zones list, gh pr view, bw get password, a keyring icon with a green check, and the same services arranged in an orderly row connected cleanly to a single CLI BINARY box.

April 28, 2026 13 min read

CLIs Over MCPs for AI Tool Integration

MCP servers put credentials in JSON configs. CLIs keep them in a keyring. After six months using both, I moved my main integrations off MCP. Here is why.

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Context Engineering Across 12 Repositories

Working across 12 repositories on different stacks is harder for AI assistants than it looks. Here is the context system I landed on.