I still prefer MCP over skills
5 hours ago
- #AI Integration
- #MCP
- #LLM Architecture
- The article argues that the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is superior to 'Skills' for giving LLMs access to services, while Skills are better for pure knowledge transfer.
- MCP acts as an API abstraction, offering advantages like zero-install remote usage, seamless updates, better authentication, portability, sandboxing, and smart tool discovery.
- Skills face issues when reliant on CLIs, including deployment complexity, secret management nightmares, fragmented ecosystems, and context window bloat from loading full documentation.
- The author proposes using MCP for service connections (e.g., Google Calendar, Notion) and Skills for teaching knowledge, workflows, and tool usage, suggesting they complement each other.
- Examples include the author's projects like MCP Nest for tunneling local MCPs remotely, and the call for industry adoption of MCP to avoid a fragmented CLI-based landscape.