MCP vs Agent skills

MCP exposes tools. Skills expose a method. Most workflows need both.

An MCP server is a process: read files, query a database, search the web. A skill is text: order, checklist, and forbidden moves.

MCP alone gives the agent hands without your team rules. Skills alone give steps without access to the repo.

Start with one filesystem or version-control MCP, then one matching skill such as open-a-PR or review-code.

Pick one entry with install metadata from each directory here. That is safer than wiring a dozen unknown servers.