Exactly. The way it’s mostly been used so far is a poor abstraction over stuff you can just put in the context and have the agent run commands.
It really shines in custom implementations coupled to projects. I’ve got a QT desktop app and my mcp server allows the agents to run the app in headless mode, take screenshots, execute code like in Playwright, inspect widget trees, send clicks/text/etc with only six tools and a thousand tokens or so of instructions. Took an hour to build with Claude Code and now it can run acceptance tests before committing them to code end to end tests.
It really shines in custom implementations coupled to projects. I’ve got a QT desktop app and my mcp server allows the agents to run the app in headless mode, take screenshots, execute code like in Playwright, inspect widget trees, send clicks/text/etc with only six tools and a thousand tokens or so of instructions. Took an hour to build with Claude Code and now it can run acceptance tests before committing them to code end to end tests.