[mehdibl]

This is killing me with complexity. We had agents.md and were supposed to augment the context there. Now back to cursor rules and another md file to ingest.

[simonw]

MCPs feel complicated. Skills seem to me like the simplest possible design for a mechanism for adding extra capabilities to an existing coding agent.

[febed]

Can skills completely replace MCPs? For example, can a skill be configured to launch my local Python program in its own venv. I don’t want Claude to spend time spinning up a runtime

[delaminator]

I tell Claude to make its own skills. “Which part of this task is worth making a skill for, use your skill making skill to do it”

[baq]

If we aren’t in the take off phase, I don’t know where we are

[rafaquintanilha]

Skills are just pointers to context so you don't need to load all of them upfront, it is as simple as that. By the way cursor rules is effectively the same as agents.md.