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> MCP adds friction, imagine doing yourself the work using the average MCP server. Why on earth don't people understand that MCP and skills are complementary c

by siva7 6mo ago

> MCP adds friction, imagine doing yourself the work using the average MCP server. Why on earth don't people understand that MCP and skills are complementary concepts, why? If people argue over MCP v. Skills they clearly don't understand either deeply.

_pdp_ 6mo ago
I won't be surprised if MCP start shipping skills. They already ship prompts and other things exposed as resources. It is not even difficult to do with the current draft as skills can be exposed by convention without protocol changes. Future version of the protocol can easily expose skills so that MCPs can acts like hubs.
- radiospiel 6mo ago
  Doesn't it already? https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/server/prompts https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/ser...
  - _pdp_ 6mo ago
    these are prompts - similar yes - but not the same
insin 6mo ago
The more things change in tech, the more they stay the same. The shoe is the sign. Let us follow His example! Cast off the shoes! Follow the Gourd!
bavell 6mo ago
They're complementary but also have significant overlap. Hence all the confusion and strong opinions.
robot-wrangler 6mo ago
> clearly don't understand either deeply No appetite for that. The MCP vs Skills debate has gradually become just a proxy war for the camps of AI skeptics vs AI boosters. Both sides view it as another chance to decide about more magic vs less, in absolute terms, without doing the work of thinking about anything situational. Nuance, questions, reasoning from first principles, focusing on purely engineering considerations is simply not welcome. The extreme factions do tend to agree that it might be a good idea to attack the middle though! There's no changing this stuff, so when it becomes tiresome it's time to just leave the HN comment section.

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> MCP adds friction, imagine doing yourself the work using the average MCP server. Why on earth don't people understand that MCP and skills are complementary c

by siva7 6mo ago

_pdp_ 6mo ago
I won't be surprised if MCP start shipping skills. They already ship prompts and other things exposed as resources. It is not even difficult to do with the current draft as skills can be exposed by convention without protocol changes. Future version of the protocol can easily expose skills so that MCPs can acts like hubs.
- radiospiel 6mo ago
  Doesn't it already? https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/server/prompts https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/ser...
  - _pdp_ 6mo ago
    these are prompts - similar yes - but not the same
insin 6mo ago
The more things change in tech, the more they stay the same. The shoe is the sign. Let us follow His example! Cast off the shoes! Follow the Gourd!
bavell 6mo ago
They're complementary but also have significant overlap. Hence all the confusion and strong opinions.
robot-wrangler 6mo ago
> clearly don't understand either deeply No appetite for that. The MCP vs Skills debate has gradually become just a proxy war for the camps of AI skeptics vs AI boosters. Both sides view it as another chance to decide about more magic vs less, in absolute terms, without doing the work of thinking about anything situational. Nuance, questions, reasoning from first principles, focusing on purely engineering considerations is simply not welcome. The extreme factions do tend to agree that it might be a good idea to attack the middle though! There's no changing this stuff, so when it becomes tiresome it's time to just leave the HN comment section.