Andreas Møller: MCP servers are not designed to run code locally on your machine, they are designed for communicating with servers. But of cause you can create a local server that does just that. MCP servers are overly complicated for this case, which is why Anthropic created Claude SKILLS instead.

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Andreas Møller andreasmoller.dk · Feb 2
From the comments on this thread it seems that most people have no idea what MCP actually is. MCP is an API specification similar to what @openapis.org is for REST APIs. The purpose is to allow AI Agents to interact with web services. Why did we need a new standard? I have no idea.
- Keith Cirkel keithamus.social · Feb 1
  Now I know enough about AI to grok what MCP is, it irritates me because fundamentally: Make a cli tool instead! Then a human can use it too. It’s not stateless? That’s what unix sockets are for! Once again we’re reinventing stuff from the 70s and making it worse.
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Andreas Møller andreasmoller.dk · Feb 2
The process works as follows: 1. AI agent is informed about available MCP servers, usually in the system prompt. 2. AI agent connects to the server and asks what APIs are available. 3. MCP server returns a list of endpoints ("tools") with descriptions 4. AI agent calls the endpoints

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Andreas Møller andreasmoller.dk
MCP servers are not designed to run code locally on your machine, they are designed for communicating with servers. But of cause you can create a local server that does just that. MCP servers are overly complicated for this case, which is why Anthropic created Claude SKILLS instead.
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Andreas Møller andreasmoller.dk · Feb 2
This does not in any way make MCP irrelevant, it just means that it is not the optimal solution to a problem it was never designed to address.

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Andreas Møller andreasmoller.dk · Feb 2
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