> The Takeaway: Skills are the right abstraction. They formalize the “scripting”-based agent model, which is more robust and flexible than the rigid, API-like model that MCP represents.

Just to not confuse, MCP is like an api but the underlying api can execute an Skill. So, its not MCP vs Skill as a contest. It's just the broad concept of a "flexible" skill vs "parameter" based Api. And again parameter based APIs can also be flexible depending on how we write it except that it lacks SKILL.md in case of Skills which guides llm to be more generic than a pure API.

By the way, if you are a Mac user, you can execute Skills locally via OpenSkills[1] that I have created using apple contianers.

1. OpenSkills -https://github.com/BandarLabs/open-skills