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A clean flat illustration on a cream background: a terminal window at the center, encircled by a clockwise loop of two teal arrows. A bullseye target icon and a magnifying glass over a checklist sit on the loop, with small invoice and coin glyphs nearby, sketching an automated build-and-review cycle.

June 15, 2026 7 min read

How I built an agent-first CLI for an accounting system

I built alegra-cli in a week with Claude Code. The speed came from high standards, enforcement in CI, and two workflows: /goal and /code-review.

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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