I Still Prefer MCP Over Skills

Why I believe the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a better architectural pattern than the emerging “Skills” trend for LLM tool integration.

David Mohl

The "only skills" people are usually non-technical and the "only CLI" people are often solo builders.

MCP makes a lot of sense for enterprise IMO. Defines auth and interfaces in a way that's a natural extension of APIs.

I think many of us have been burned by the absolutely awful and unstable JIRA MCP and found that skills using `acli` actually work and view the rest of the MCP space thru that lens. Lots of early - and current! - MCP implementations were bad. So it’s an uphill battle to rebuild reputation.

Can you share more about acli?

Literally my biggest use case for MCP is Jira and Confuence