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Is MCP dead? What the Model Context Protocol is in 2026, and when a CLI beats it

MCP has a new spec revision, a Linux Foundation home and a loud group of critics. Here is where each stands, read from the spec, Anthropic, Cloudflare, Claude Code's docs and the critic's own post, plus five rules for choosing an MCP server or a CLI.

Aliteq Team · 14h ago · 12 min