MCP Doesn't Suck. Your Agent Does. — Jan Čurn, Apify

תקציר מקורי באנגליתEveryone's dunking on MCP. The protocol isn't the problem. Your agent harness is. Jan Čurn, founder and CEO of Apify, goes through the 'MCP is dead' backlash and shows that most of the complaints, like context bloat and token burn, come from naive client implementations, not the protocol. He covers the three fixes the industry has landed on (sub-agents, progressive tool discovery, Code Mode), explains why CLIs feel better to agents, and makes the case for using MCP for remote access and a CLI for local access. Then he demos mcpc, Apify's open-source universal CLI client for MCP, and shares early results from Connector Evals comparing raw MCP, CLIs and mcpc. In this talk: • Why loading every MCP tool into context up front is a harness bug, not a protocol flaw • Progressive tool discovery an