Comment by NitpickLawyer

> I prefer the more deterministic behavior of MCP for complex multi-step tasks, and the fact that I can do it effectively using smaller, cheaper models is just icing on the cake.

Yeah, that makes sense. That's not what the person that I replied was talking about, tho. Skills work fine for "loading context pertinent to one type of task", such as working on a feature without "forgetting" what was done in the previous session.

The article deals with specific, somewhat predefined workflows.