Quoting Sean Lynch

Simon Willison's AI Notes published: The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...] Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the API and nothing else. That’d still be a win. — Sean Lynch , comment on Hacker News Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , model-context-protocol , skills