alt Hacker NewsDespite thinking this is AI-generated, I agree but everything has a caveat.
Skills are good for instilling non-repeatable, yet intuitive or institutional knowledge.
MCP’s are great for custom, repeatable tasks. After 5-10 runs of watching my LLM write the same exact script, I just asked it to hardcode the solution and make it a tool. The result is runs are way faster and repeatable.
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You could hardcode the script as a file within a skill too right? Skills can contain code, not just markdown files.
> Skills are good for instilling non-repeatable, yet intuitive or institutional knowledge.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting you, but can you explain this more? I've been using skills for repeatable tasks. Why an MCP instead?
> Skills are good for instilling non-repeatable, yet intuitive or institutional knowledge.
What about just putting that sort of thing in human-targeted documentation? Why call it a “skill” and hide it somewhere a human is less likely to look?
(Skills are nice for providing /shortcuts.)
It is all about API contracts, right?
After the first run, you have a script and an API: the agent discovery mechanism is a detail. If the script is small enough, and the task custom enough, you could simply add the script to the context and say "use this, adapt if needed".
Or am I misunderstanding you?