Inspired by Simon Willison's title, "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"
I don't currently have a ton of experience with MCP, and none with Claude Skills.
I currently don't see MCP as a very big deal anyways; eg MCP is in the ballpark, but smaller than Deep Research. Maybe MCP is a bigger deal than Claude Artifacts?
I'll resolve this YES if I'm convinced that Skills has meaningfully surpassed MCP, NO if this is definitively not the case, and 50% if it's close.
1,000MCP expands the applications, skills assist in the process. Claude with skills but without MCP is like someone with a bunch of college degrees but no keys to unlock the room they're sitting in, so they can only apply the knowledge to the objects brought into the room by the prison guard (you).