I think so, and I've seen other solutions too. The one in the OP is more general, as you say.

Have you tried Code Mode?

I don't understand the CLI vs MCP. In cli's like Claude Code, MCPs give a lot of additional functionality, such as status polling that is hard to get right with raw documentation on what APIs to call.

Prediction markets are interesting when they are predicting future things nobody knows for sure.

"Predicting" private, known information is the wrong use case.

This has persisted for a crazy long time. It's one thing to ship your org chart, it's another thing to leave it in prod for years!

Reminds me of the YouTube Music vs Google Play Music debacle.