Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP by rco8786 on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:37PM (#45620299)

So these skills are effectively JIT context injections. Is that about right?

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Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP by josefrichter on Friday October 17, 2025 @04:00PM (#45621327)

From the docs:

"Skills work through progressive disclosure—Claude determines which Skills are relevant and loads the information it needs to complete that task, helping to prevent context window overload."

So yeah, I guess you're right. Instead of one humongous AGENTS.md, just packaging small relevant pieces together with simple tools.

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Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP by danjc on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:43PM (#45620389)

It's all jit context

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Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP by simonw on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:59PM (#45620605)

Yes, that's a good way of describing them.

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Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP by conception on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:40PM (#45620356)

Yes

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