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Well-designed CLIs are crucial in the agentic AI era—serving both human users and autonomous agents with precision and reliability. Treat CLI output formats as stable API contracts and prioritize adoption of the MCP protocol for agent integration from day one.

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Well-designed CLIs are crucial in the agentic AI era—serving both human users and autonomous agents with precision and reliability. Treat CLI output formats as stable API contracts and prioritize adoption of the MCP protocol for agent integration from day one.

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