> Tool calls are incredibly interesting and useful. MCP is just one means to that end, and not one of the better ones.

It's nice to have an open standard though. In that sense it's pretty awesome.

But MCP isn't just tools, you can expose prompt templates and context resources as well.

All the skills that don't have an added dependency on a local script could just be an MCP resource.

You don't need MCP for prompt templates and context resources. Those are both just forms of prompting.

	▲	didibus 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure what you mean? LLMs can only be interacted with using prompting. Even the tool call response from OpenAPI is them just wrapping the prompt on their side of the API with another prompt. So everything else is just adding behavior around it. MCP is a way to add behavior around LLM prompting for user convenience.