Stop Pitting MCP Servers Against Agent Skills — They Solve Different Problems
· 7 min read
Every few months, the AI developer community finds a new hill to die on. The latest: "Skills are all you need. RIP MCP."
David Cramer, the CTO of Sentry and someone who's shipped one of the most widely-used MCP servers in the ecosystem, recently published a thorough breakdown of how MCP, Skills, and Agents actually relate to each other. His frustration is well-placed — and a lot of us who've been building with these tools share it.
So let's set the record straight.
