i like how Anthropic has positioned themselves as the true AI research company and donating “standards” like that.

Although Skills are just md files but it’s good to see them “donate” it.

There goal seems to be simple: Focus on coding and improving it. They’ve found a great niche and hopefully revenue generating business there.

OpenAI on the other hand doesn’t give me same vibes, they don’t seem very oriented. They’re playing catchup with both Google models and Anthropic

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plufz a day ago | parent | next [-]

I have no idea why I’m about to defend OpenAI here. BUT OpenAI have released some open weight models like gpt-oss and whisper. But sure open weight not open source. And yeah I really don’t like OpenAI as a company to be clear.

	▲	dismantlethesun a day ago \| parent [-]
		They have but it does feel like they are developing a closed platform aka Apple. Apple has shortcuts, but they haven’t propped it up like a standard that other people can use. To contrast this is something you can use even if you have nothing to do with Claude, and your tools created will be compatible with the wider ecosystem.

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theshrike79 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A skill can also contain runnable code.

Many many MCPs could and should just be a skill instead.