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Re:Welcome to FastMCP by Marazan on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:37PM (#47508846)
You can tightly constrain MCPs and shape the context that is shared back to the Agent.

A skill is, at the end of the day, just a prompt.

Re:Welcome to FastMCP by zapnuk on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @05:38PM (#47509770)
Thats just one of the interpretations of a skill.

A skill can also act as an abstraction layer over many tools (implemented as an mcp server) to save context tokens.

Skills offer a short description of their use and thus occupy only a few hundled tokens in the context compared to thousends of tokens if all tools would be in the context.

When the LLM decides that the skill is usefull we can dynamically load the skills tools into the context (using a `load_skill` meta-tool).

Re:Welcome to FastMCP by dionian on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:56PM (#47509139)
true but we could also integrate a non-MCP app with a skill and put the controls there.