Do you think that should be an option? I totally get opting out of crawlers, search or training but this is different.
But should the author be able to opt out of a tool used for manually initiated queries? I can’t say “don’t use grep” on my repo.
Yes. But is that the line?
Crawling makes sense (automated traffic) but this isn’t automated, it’s user initiated. Search indexing makes sense (this isn’t that). Training makes sense (this isn’t that).
It should have a honest user agent so server can filter, for sure.
If I’m allowed ‘git clone X && grep -r’ against a service, why can’t I do the same with MCP.
Grep is a tool. This is a service.