Skills vs. MCP Hosts

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Friday, January 23, 2026

People are discussing how Skills have an advantage over MCP hosts, specifically regarding progressive disclosure and lazy-loading content, particularly within the Claude context.

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@kevinswiberKevin Swiber

One area where Skills have an edge right now: progressive disclosure. It's baked into the spec. Almost every implementation already lazy-loads skill content. MCP hosts are still catching up. Claude Code has Tool Search. Most others load everything upfront.

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