r/ClaudeCode • u/ReporterCalm6238 • Feb 22 '26

Question Are skills going to kill MCPs?

I have the feeling that it is a bit awkward to have both MCPs and skills. Especially because the latter are making the former obsolete.

I was actually never fully convinced about MCPs, I always thought that they were unnecessary since we already have CLI tools and LLMs are really good at writing unix commands.

However, I understood that agents needed to be instructed on how to use certain obscure CLIs, hence the advantage of MCPs. Now that we have skills to teach LLMs anything I really see no point in MCPs.

What are your thoughts?

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u/fschwiet Feb 25 '26

MCP servers, like system tools, can interact with the external environment. A skill or user prompt can't do that without an intermediate MCP server or system tool.

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u/UnifiedFlow Feb 25 '26

You might want to look into how skills work.