To be honest a bit weird. You say MCP is dead and talking about tokens price, then mentioning SKILLS to replace it - which will cost probably more tokens to do it. And not even mentioning that SKILLS has nothing to do with functionality itself MCP provides. To be honest a bit weird article :D
MCP is dead?
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Re: MCP is dead?
#442Was this written by AI? MCP is essentially just JSON RPC with a few special fields that must be included. I have reservations about JSON RPC, but there needs to be some 'service discovery' layer for LLMs to interface with. It needs to be available in places like websites, desktop applications, backend services, etc. The CLI is only one place that these systems interface with. Whatever you replace MCP with will be in…
Yes, feels like person who wrote this was not completely aware of topic
Re: MCP is dead?
#443it is not dead for my team, but surely if one prefers to replace them with skills, they are most likely wrong. at least outside of personal, one-user scenarios.
has anybody ever use the prompt templates in practice? for what it's worth, these protocols are a product of their time, and unfortunately people lose patience with seeing it through in practice.
in the end it is all text. things are overengineered regardless, but at least this allowed reuse across projects.
Re: MCP is dead?
#444Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is the user installing the CLIs? Proprietary app store for each chat app?
I didn't mean that users would install them. I meant that if mcp and AI agents continue being popular, then Google and Apple could choose to provide apps with cli sandboxes with the proper permissions. It is a big change, but I just didn't understand the "never"; we've had bigger changes.
Ok sure, the "never" was a bit strong here. Running CLIs on phones is not a normal thing and not as simple as it is on desktop. Apple prohibits apps from downloading and executing code, so some sort of new Apple-approved thing would be required here. That's a very heavy lift.
Of course anything is possible, I just don't think that people advocating for MCP's death have really thought through these problems, and are mostly focused on the desktop productivity use-cases.