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And if my disclosures aren't enough for you, here's the FTC explaining how it would be illegal for an AI vendor to pay someone to write something like this without both sides disclosing the relationship: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs-endorse...
can we prompt claude to edit and improve it's skills too?
my understanding is the "skills" are manually written can we prompt claude to edit and improve it's skills too?
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Your LLMs get rid of comments? Mine add them incessantly.
I have to yell at Gemini to not add so many comments it almost writes more comments than code by default.
most of the times when LLM is misbehaving, it's my fault for leaving outdated instructions
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What is an "influencer blog post"? I didn't say that MCP was too complex to take off - it clearly took off despite that complexity. I'm predicting skills will take off even more. If I'm wrong feel free to call me out in a few months time for making a bad prediction!
> I didn't say that MCP was too complex to take off - it clearly took off despite that complexity. I did not say you said exactly that either. Read more carefully. I said you were discrediting them by implying they were too complex to take off due to resource and complexity constraints. It's clearly stated in the relevant section of your post ( https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/#skills-... ) >I'm pr…
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I have to yell at Gemini to not add so many comments it almost writes more comments than code by default.
check your AGENTS.md or equivalent most of the times when LLM is misbehaving, it's my fault for leaving outdated instructions
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My team doing front end dev extracted a lot of value from figma mcp. Things that would have taken 3 weeks were done in one afternoon.
Do you mean three weeks of manual work (no LLM) vs MCP? Or MCP vs LLM tool use? Because that's a huge difference.
The former is a step function change. The latter is just a small improvement.
It seems to me that MCP and Skills are solving 2 different problems and provide solutions that compliment each other quite nicely. MCP is about integration of external systems and services. Skills are about context management - providing context on demand. As Simon mentions, one issue with MCP is token use. Skills seem like a straightforward way to manage that problem: just put the MCP tools list inside a skill where…
You could even have a Skill that says "First call 'enable-mcp jira' to enable the Jira MCP, now here's how to use that: ..."