MCP vs. Skills: How AI Agents Connect to Tools and Real-World Systems

Recently, one of the trending topics in the tech community has been: MCP vs. Skills - which one is a stronger boost for AI Agents? The deeper reason behind this debate is that as AI Agents evolve rapidly, large language models are gradually transforming from conversation systems into task execution systems. In the past, large models mainly played the role of generating information and assisting decision-making. Today, however, and applications expect AI to directly operate systems, call tools, and complete real tasks.