jancurn on Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP

Comment on Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP

Cool, adding this to my list of MCP CLIs:

  - https://github.com/apify/mcpc
  - https://github.com/chrishayuk/mcp-cli
  - https://github.com/wong2/mcp-cli
  - https://github.com/f/mcptools
  - https://github.com/adhikasp/mcp-client-cli
  - https://github.com/thellimist/clihub
  - https://github.com/EstebanForge/mcp-cli-ent
  - https://github.com/knowsuchagency/mcp2cli
  - https://github.com/philschmid/mcp-cli
  - https://github.com/steipete/mcporter
  - https://github.com/mattzcarey/cloudflare-mcp
  - https://github.com/assimelha/cmcp

oulu2006 6mo

Precisely, there are about 100 of these, and everyone makes a new one every week.

short_sells_poo 6mo

This is entirely predictable: we get an army of vibe coders, vibe coding up tools to make vibe coding easier.

wat10000 6mo

For simple stuff like this, it's easier to have the agent build something than it is to figure out how to install someone else's.

casey2 6mo

there is nobody making a new one ever week.

_pdp_6mo

Also https://github.com/mcpshim/mcpshim

It turns out everyone is having the same idea.

jancurn 6mo

Added.

Here's the comparison table: https://github.com/apify/mcpc?tab=readme-ov-file#related-wor...

siva7 6mo

Which one do you recommend?

jebus989 6mo

Roll your own

theshrike79 6mo

I understand the need to do your own, I do it all the time.

But why advertise it and try to make it into a product?

Aperocky 6mo

The biggest surprise of this list is someone grabbed "f" as github username, clever.

knowsuchagencyOP6mo

lol I didn’t know there were so many but I’m not surprised.

I was inspired by clihub (I credited them) but I also wanted 3 additional things.

1. OpenAPI support 2. Dynamic CLI generation. I don’t want to recompile my CLI if the server changes. 3. An agent skill

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