AI agents behave much more like terminal users than API clients.

So it’s not surprising that CLI tools often outperform MCP integrations for many workflows.

For Java developers this opens an interesting path:
JBang + small CLI tools as agent capabilities.

I wrote a deep dive here:

https://www.the-main-thread.com/p/ai-agents-cli-tools-jbang-java-architects

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