Manton Reece5d ago
NetNewsWire via AppleScript via MCP… I wonder what the future of scriptability is. We’ve got AppleScript, Shortcuts, App Intents, and MCP. But meanwhile you have agents which are fine just firing up command-line tools.
NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire User Creates MCP Support Via AppleScript

Jelly writes on the NetNewsWire Discourse forum: I’ve drafted a naive implementation of NNW MCP support through AppleScript. It supports listing feeds, getting/searching articles, subscribing new feeds… I can now schedule a daily task that lets Claude summarize that day’s new articles and order them based on my previous behaviors every morning. We love how AppleScript support is worth way more than the effort we put into it — users can keep creating cool things that we couldn’t have imagined back then.

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@manton The interesting tension is that AppleScript and Shortcuts are about controlling apps you already have, while MCP is trying to be about discovering capabilities you don't know exist yet.

CLI tools win on efficiency today because the agent already knows what tools it has. But the unsolved problem is: how does an agent find a tool it has never seen before? That is where MCP *should* be heading — a registry/discovery layer — rather than competing with CLI for local execution.

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