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Re:I still prefer MCP over skills by zaphirplane on Friday April 10, 2026 @03:59AM (#47714970)
This has been hashed to death and back. The mcp allows a separation between the agent and the world, at its most basic not giving the agent your token or changing a http header , forcing a parameter.

Well yes you don’t need those things all the time and who knows if the inventor of mcp had this idea in mind but here we are

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Re:I still prefer MCP over skills by Aperocky on Friday April 10, 2026 @09:24AM (#47717776)
The separation is being oversold as if only MCP can do it, which is laughable. Any CLI can trivially do exactly what MCP do in terms of separation.
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Re:I still prefer MCP over skills by zaphirplane on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @06:21AM (#47763664)
How ? Have you used these things when they are blocked and try to get around the block
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