old and inaccurate knowledge..

- Skills do take up space in the context. The name and description of every skill goes into the system prompt. You can't add unlimited skills without context pressure.

- MCP context spam is less of a big deal now that there is deferred tool loading.

- If you work with the agents long enough you'll run into situations where using bash CLI tools suck and an MCP works better.

- MCP is not dead and has never been dead, it's the right solution in certain cases.