🚀 New Video: CLI Is Replacing MCP — The Future of AI Agent Workflows

The co-founder of Perplexity just said they're moving away from MCP internally. Y Combinator's CEO called MCP out publicly. When the people who built the integrations are abandoning the approach — pay attention.

In this video I break down why MCP's context window bloat and authentication friction are becoming a bottleneck, and two massive open-source projects that just launched around the CLI-first approach:

Google Workspace CLI (GWS) — one CLI for all of Google. Gmail, Drive, Sheets, Calendar, Docs. 100+ built-in agent skills, enterprise security with Model Armor, and dynamic API discovery. Install once, authenticate once, done.

CLI Anything — point it at any open-source software repo and it auto-generates a full CLI. Blender, Audacity, LibreOffice, OBS, Stable Diffusion. 1,500+ passing tests across 11 apps. From Hong Kong University's research lab.

Your AI agent can now control almost anything through the terminal. Google Workspace on one side, the entire open-source ecosystem on the other.

Links:

GWS CLI: https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli

CLI Anything: https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything

Perplexity CTO on MCP: https://x.com/morganlinton/status/2031795683897077965

Garry Tan (YC CEO): https://x.com/garrytan/status/2031910564344262988

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🚀 New Video: CLI Is Replacing MCP — The Future of AI Agent Workflows