Comment by deadbabe

10 hours ago

You don't need MCP.

You need Claude Skills.

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.

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.