not only cheaper/less tokens but because there are less tokens you should see more accurate results. Skills are a very useful pattern, I've started using them for everything.

This only applies if a tool has a cli , sometimes there is just an api

Basically how openclaw works

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MCP isn’t directly competing with CLIs since the former is a protocol. You may want to run your agent in a distroless container without a shell but let it make HTTP requests to whitelisted endpoints for example. MCP is also a tool discovery protocol.

I've been teaching gemini to use nak!

Skills work great with cli tools