MCPs, CLIs, and Skills: Choosing the Right Tooling Layer for Agentic Development
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 11:10am-11:30am
- Track/room: Agentic Engineering · Main Stage
- Speaker(s): Nikita Kothari
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
Agentic development needs more than one interface: MCPs provide clean, portable connectors to
services, with built-in patterns for security and auth. CLIs offer composability, debuggability, and
workflows developers already trust. Skills teach agents how to use a wide variety of tools and MCPs
effectively without overloading context.
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