alt Hacker NewsAll of that can be solved in better ways than MCP. 1+2+4 belongs to sandboxing. 3 to sandbox UIs. Ideally baked into the next generation OSs.
MCP is the wrong abstraction for all of that. Skills are better as pluggable interfaces, and I predict[0] chat and agentic loops will converge eventually (Anthropic already did this correctly; OpenAI, it's your turn) and skills marketplace will replace MCP in its current form.
I see value in MCP, but it feels like a stopgap/stepping stone.
[0] Where "predict" = "hope". The best solutions are often not the winners.
Skills are adjacent to MCP. They do not cover the same surface, in anyway. I don't understand this argument at all (and I see lots of people making it, so enlighten me)
I want my agent to be able to convert reliably between timezones. A skill does not solve this. It needs a deterministic tool it can call