Comment by deadbabe 3 months ago You don't need MCP.You need Claude Skills. 8 comments deadbabe Reply nextworddev 3 months ago Actually you just need a prompt and some tools vidarh 3 months ago Skills are basically just a prompt and (optionally) some tools, only with a preamble that means they are selectively brought into context only as needed. CuriouslyC 3 months ago Claude Skills are just good documentation wrapped into Anthropic's API in a proprietary way that's designed to foster lock-in. sunaookami 3 months ago How are skills vendor lock-in when they're just Markdown files that any LLM can read? You are not locked to Anthropic at all. CuriouslyC 3 months ago The API runs your skills, it's not client side coordinated. You have to replicate the skill-running behavior locally. 3 replies →
nextworddev 3 months ago Actually you just need a prompt and some tools vidarh 3 months ago Skills are basically just a prompt and (optionally) some tools, only with a preamble that means they are selectively brought into context only as needed.
vidarh 3 months ago Skills are basically just a prompt and (optionally) some tools, only with a preamble that means they are selectively brought into context only as needed.
CuriouslyC 3 months ago Claude Skills are just good documentation wrapped into Anthropic's API in a proprietary way that's designed to foster lock-in. sunaookami 3 months ago How are skills vendor lock-in when they're just Markdown files that any LLM can read? You are not locked to Anthropic at all. CuriouslyC 3 months ago The API runs your skills, it's not client side coordinated. You have to replicate the skill-running behavior locally. 3 replies →
sunaookami 3 months ago How are skills vendor lock-in when they're just Markdown files that any LLM can read? You are not locked to Anthropic at all. CuriouslyC 3 months ago The API runs your skills, it's not client side coordinated. You have to replicate the skill-running behavior locally. 3 replies →
CuriouslyC 3 months ago The API runs your skills, it's not client side coordinated. You have to replicate the skill-running behavior locally. 3 replies →
Actually you just need a prompt and some tools
Skills are basically just a prompt and (optionally) some tools, only with a preamble that means they are selectively brought into context only as needed.
Claude Skills are just good documentation wrapped into Anthropic's API in a proprietary way that's designed to foster lock-in.
How are skills vendor lock-in when they're just Markdown files that any LLM can read? You are not locked to Anthropic at all.
The API runs your skills, it's not client side coordinated. You have to replicate the skill-running behavior locally.
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