I hope we move to a world where things like Skills replace MCP. People could package scripts that make API requests with curl instead of providing custom MCP se

I hope we move to a world where things like Skills replace MCP. People could package scripts that make API requests with curl instead of providing custom MCP servers. I think this has the potential to be much more flexible than MCP, make use of existing REST API infrastructure, and have much better context characteristics for agents. MCP can be very clunky, both in it polluting your context and it being annoying to set up new services. Skills are simpler and put more work on the agentic harness, which I like. Even before "Skills" I found that if you could write bash scripts for agents to execute instead of running MCP servers, that would often work a lot better. It's not always easy for things like controlling a browser, but when it does work bash scripts can be much simpler to manage. Skills are effectively an extension of this idea, just with nicer context management built-in.