Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP by simonw on Friday October 17, 2025 @06:31PM (#45622893)

I think skill is the perfect name for this. You provide the LLM with a new skill by telling it how to do a thing and providing supporting scripts to help it do that thing.

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Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP by ajtejankar on Friday October 17, 2025 @06:51PM (#45623057)

Yup! I fully agree. It also taps into the ability of LLMs to write code given good prompts. All you need is for the LLM to recognize that it needs something, fetch it into the context, and write exactly the code that is needed in the current combination of skill + previous context.

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Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP by causal on Saturday October 18, 2025 @09:11AM (#45627071)

You've described instructions. It already had a name.

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Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP by simonw on Saturday October 18, 2025 @10:15AM (#45627566)

"Instructions" doesn't cover the bit where you have a folder with markdown with YAML frontmatter metadata plus additional executable scripts - which can then be shared with others.

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