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Why use MCP when Agents can use APIs directly?

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[Sorry in advance if this a duplicate of another post, but feels like the response to this question can vary every month] Agentic workflows and LLMs are now powerful enough to call and discover APIs and CLIs directly, so MCP feels more and more like a heavy redundancy. Feels like the biggest value…

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  1. 2026-08-28 11:17 · r/AI_Agents
    Why use MCP when Agents can use APIs directly?

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