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> If you often need timezone conversion, sounds like a `timezones` skill exposing a few lines in a Python script. Boom. No MCP needed. No server needed okay, b
by tacoooooooo 5d ago
> If you often need timezone conversion, sounds like a `timezones` skill exposing a few lines in a Python script. Boom. No MCP needed. No server needed
okay, but now my agent needs a coding environment / sandbox.
MCP (or tool use in general) solves this without that (extremely tenuous and expensive to do at scale in prd) requirement.
The skill is totally orthogonal here--solving a totally separate problem
- kaoD 5d agoI guess someone could expose the coding environment via MCP.
- tacoooooooo 5d agoThey could and code execution is actually exposed to the model as a tool! But if im running a customer support agent at scale, i'm not sure I want it to be able to write code. I do know I need it to be able to convert timezones though. (its also far more expensive / token inefficient to have it write code each time to convert timezones rather to use a predefined tool I made an know works)
- kaoD 5d ago> token inefficient to have it write code It does not write code. It just calls my tool. But I see your other points though.