MCPs, CLIs, and Skills: Choosing the Right Tooling Layer for Agentic Development
Conference 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
- Track: Agentic Engineering
- Room: Main Stage
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed
Session 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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MCPs, CLIs, and Skills: Choosing the Right Tooling Layer for Agentic Development ## Conference 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 - Track: Agentic Engineering - Room: Main Stage - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session 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. ## Media Evidence No related AI Engineer channel video found yet.
Speaker And Company Context
- Nikita Kothari — Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce.
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