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mbesto 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: I still prefer MCP over skills

The way I see it is more like this:

- Skills help the LLM answer the "how" to interact with API/CLIs from your original prompt

- API is what actually sends/receives the interaction/request

- CLI is the actual doing / instruct set of the interaction/request

- MCP helps the LLM understand what is available from the CLI and API

They are all complementary.

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