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		jmalicki 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available ... MCP servers are really just skills paired with python scripts, it's not really that different, MCP just lets you package them together for distribution.

cube2222 3 days ago [–]

But then those work only locally - not in the web ui’s, unless you make it a remote MCP, and then it’s back to being something somewhat different.

Skills also have a nicer way of working with the context, by default (and in the main web uis), with their overview-driven lazy loading.

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