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You don't need MCP. You need Claude Skills.
by deadbabe 11mo ago
You don't need MCP.
You need Claude Skills.
- nextworddev 11mo agoActually you just need a prompt and some tools
- vidarh 11mo agoSkills are basically just a prompt and (optionally) some tools, only with a preamble that means they are selectively brought into context only as needed.
- CuriouslyC 11mo agoClaude Skills are just good documentation wrapped into Anthropic's API in a proprietary way that's designed to foster lock-in.
- sunaookami 11mo agoHow are skills vendor lock-in when they're just Markdown files that any LLM can read? You are not locked to Anthropic at all.
- CuriouslyC 11mo agoThe API runs your skills, it's not client side coordinated. You have to replicate the skill-running behavior locally.
- sunaookami 11mo agoClaude just reads the SKILL.md frontmatter into initial context and when the instructions match it reads the rest of the SKILL.md. Every LLM can do that.
- CuriouslyC 11mo agoIf it's such a thing that every model already can support it and you don't need to do anything with it, why is it even a feature?
- sunaookami 11mo agoTo be fair other providers have to implement reading a skill directory and only the frontmatter of the SKILL.md and read more of it when needed. But it's a LOT simpler than implementing MCP.