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MCP is a fad

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Re: MCP is a fad

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Post by vidarh »

This article could really mostly be reduced to the last two paragraphs, but then it calls skills "over-engineered". Skills are basically just having the agent read the front matter with instructions to read the rest if a given skill seems useful in a given context... I don't know how it could be more minimal.

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Post by Someone1234 »

Fair warning, if you load the site in dark-mode the diagrams are completely broken. They're PNGs with an alpha-transparency background and gray/black for the actual content, when the site is in dark mode you can see nothing at all...

So make sure to change to light-mode in the top-right if you want to read this article at all.

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Post by ramon156 »

It's best to replace the MCP's with a respectable CLI / executable and design a skill for that tool, that way an agent would fetch something the same way you would

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Post by Myrmornis »

vidarh wrote: post #3

This article could really mostly be reduced to the last two paragraphs, but then it calls skills "over-engineered". Skills are basically just having the agent read the front matter with instructions to read the rest if a given skill seems useful in a given context... I don't know how it could be more minimal.

Yes, it reduced the author's credibility; it seems that whatever the accuracy is of some is their MCP criticism, they just like criticizing things.

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Post by Myrmornis »

The article focused on the local stdio MCP tools used by coding / computer automation agents like claude code and cursor, but missed the fact that we will need protocols for AI agents to call networked services, including async interactions with long-running operations.
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