Agent skills comparisons
Side-by-side breakdowns of the things people most often confuse. These aren't scorecards with a winner: skills, MCP servers and subagents solve different problems, and the useful answer is usually which one fits the job in front of you.
Recorded Skills vs Hand-Written SKILL.md
A genuine comparison of Claude Cowork's Record a Skill against hand-written SKILL.md files, where each wins, concrete examples, and why the right answer is usually both.
July 29, 2026
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Claude Code vs Codex CLI for Agent Skills
Both read the same SKILL.md standard, but activation, timing, and install paths differ. Here's how Claude Code and Codex CLI compare for running skills.
April 28, 2026
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Agent Skills vs AGENTS.md: How They Work Together
AGENTS.md loads on every request and should stay short. Skills load conditionally and can be as detailed as they need. Here's the practical split, worked out.
March 31, 2026
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Agent Skills vs Subagents: When to Use Each
Subagents buy isolation and parallelism at a cost. Skills buy expertise cheaply in the current context. Here's how to tell which problem you actually have.
March 24, 2026
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Agent Skills vs MCP: What's the Difference?
MCP connects agents to live external systems over a protocol. Agent Skills are markdown instructions loaded from disk. Here's when to use each, and how they combine.
March 10, 2026
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