Comment by yaur

8 hours ago

> the usual “MCP is dead, Skills forever” debate

Is that really a thing? Everything on the other side of the MCP boundary (at least how I'm using it) is deterministic and about 100x faster (not to mention safer) than inference.

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shepherdjerred  8 hours ago

Skills can be about as deterministic. Consider GitHub MCP vs skill for GH CLI.

It might use the view_pr tool, or `gh pr view`, but in the end it's still performing a deterministic action.

The benefit might be that the GH skill can contain more domain specific information about GitHub, and you only pay the context cost when the skill is read.

Personally I generally avoid MCP and have skills for CLIs -- if one doesn't exist, then I author one. For example I have a CLI for Grafana, Discord, Sentry, etc.

https://github.com/shepherdjerred/monorepo/tree/main/package...