MCP Is Overengineered, Skills Are Too Primitive

https://lobu.ai/blog/mcp-is-overengineered-skills-are-too-primitive/

by buremba • 4 months ago

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PaulHoule2• 4 months ago

"Over 100,000 packages on Nixpkgs. Every CLI tool you can think of. Installed declaratively, cached across container restarts, no Docker rebuild."

Mrs. Holbrook, who gave me a D in high school English, would point out that there isn't a single sentence there. On the other hand, I've had times when I made most of my income by writing. What do you want, good grammar or good taste?

hojeongna• 4 months ago

Back when MCP first came out, AI wasn't this smart, so you had to give it the exact tools it needed. Now, it feels like it’s just a gateway. Skills might look simple since they're built to be highly composable, but they’re definitely the 'in' thing right now, so they're worth looking into.

buremba2• 4 months ago

They're composable but computers are not. Two skills might depend on a different version of a dependency which is pretty hard to maintain and their needs to be a deterministic system (agents are not) to resolve the conflicts and make sure two skills can live in the same environment.

PaulHoule2• 4 months ago

If you are using Python it should be creating separate venv's for different skills. It is 2016, uv can install any version of Python you need.

MCP Is Overengineered, Skills Are Too Primitive

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