alt Hacker NewsIt isn't particularly useful. It uses a lot of context without a lot of value. Claude has written a blog post saying as much. Skills keep the context out unless it's needed.
It's a much better system in my experience.
It isn't particularly useful. It uses a lot of context without a lot of value. Claude has written a blog post saying as much. Skills keep the context out unless it's needed.
It's a much better system in my experience.
Claude did not say don't use MCP because it pollutes the context
What they said was don't pollute your context with lots of tool defs, from MCP or not. You'll see this same problem if you have 100s of skills, with their names and descriptions chewing up tokens
Their solution is to let the agent search and discover as needed, it's a general concept around tools (mcp, func, code use, skills)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use