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Mark Roddy
@launchit.ai

I was today years old when I realized you can't pull data from an MCP server w/o it ending up in your agent's context. This post brought to you by me asking Claude to export all my Strava workout history from their MCP server, and it quickly falling over. Back to the API it is!

support.strava.comStrava MCP Connector | Strava Help CenterStarting June 1, 2026, Strava will begin rolling out an official MCP as part of the Strava subscription, built with security and quality guardrails. It's the supported path for athletes who want to…

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Dean Lee
@deanlee.info

MCP assumes conversational-scale data. A handful of records, a status check. Try bulk export and every row turns into inference tokens you're paying for with zero reasoning benefit. API's the right call because it keeps data transport and model context on separate budgets.