Agentic AI and Claude Code are having a moment, thanks in no small part to agent skills. What does this mean for MCP? In his newest lightboard, Tim Berglund sorts it out. Along the way, he recaps what's new in the MCP spec (streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1, and the quiet decline of the Resource API), and he breaks down what skills are and where they overlap with MCP. The short answer: local coding agents can lean on skills, but agentic microservices still very much need MCP.
Agentic AI and Claude Code are having a moment, thanks in no small part to agent skills. What does this mean for MCP? In his newest lightboard, Tim Berglund sorts it out. Along the way, he recaps what's new in the MCP spec (streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1, and the quiet decline of the Resource API), and he breaks down what skills are and where they overlap with MCP. The short answer: local coding agents can lean on skills, but agentic microservices still very much need MCP.
Good content here, also nice use of the lightboard and mirroring trick.