> MCP is giving the agents a bunch of functions/tools

A directory of skills... same thing

You can use MCP the same way as skills with a different interface. There are no rules on what goes into them.

They both need descriptions and instruction around them, they both have to be is presented and index/instn to the agent dynamically, so we can tell them what they have access to without polluting the context.

See the Anthropic post on moving MCP servers to a search function. Once you have enough skills, you are going to require the same optimization.

I separate things in a different way

1. What things do I force into context (agents.md, "tools" index, files) 2. What things can the agent discorver (MCP, skills, search)