{"id":468,"date":"2025-10-17T05:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/claude-skills-are-awesome-maybe-a-bigger-deal-than-mcp\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T05:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:15:16","slug":"claude-skills-are-awesome-maybe-a-bigger-deal-than-mcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/claude-skills-are-awesome-maybe-a-bigger-deal-than-mcp\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My own interest in MCPs has waned ever since I started taking coding agents seriously. Almost everything I might achieve with an MCP can be handled by a CLI tool instead. LLMs know how to call cli-tool &#8211;help, which means you don\u2019t have to spend many tokens describing how to use them\u2014the model can figure it out later when it needs to.<\/p>\n<p>Skills have exactly the same advantage, only now I don\u2019t even need to implement a new CLI tool. I can drop a Markdown file in describing how to do a task instead, adding extra scripts only if they\u2019ll help make things more reliable or efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Here come the Skills&nbsp;#<br \/>\nOne of the most exciting things about Skills is how easy they are to share. I expect many skills will be implemented as a single file\u2014more sophisticated ones will be a folder with a few more.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2025\/Oct\/16\/claude-skills\/\">simonwillison.net\/2025\/Oct\/16\/claude-skills\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My own interest in MCPs has waned ever since I started taking coding agents seriously. Almost everything I might achieve with an MCP can be handled by a CLI tool instead. LLMs know how to call cli-tool &#8211;help, which means you don\u2019t have to spend many tokens describing how to use them\u2014the model can figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}