{"slug": "skills-vs-mcp-how-ai-tools-have-evolved", "title": "Skills vs MCP: How AI tools have evolved", "summary": "A developer explores the evolution from MCP to Skills in AI tooling, noting that Skills enable non-developers to write and share instructions for agents without code. The developer quotes Greggyb saying 'the hottest programming language right now is English.'", "body_md": "Eighteen months ago, MCP was *the* thing. Every demo and chatbot connector was running on MCP under the hood. When I started seeing everyone talk about *Skills*, I got curious. How are MCP and Skills connected? Are they different lenses on the same problem?\n\nI brought these questions to [@greggyb](https://dev.to/greggyb) again in our latest video.\n\nMy favorite line from this one: the hottest programming language right now is English. Skills let non-developers write, iterate on, and share instructions that make an entire team's agents faster, no code required.\n\nAre you using Skills yet? Curious where everyone's at.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skills-vs-mcp-how-ai-tools-have-evolved", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/googleai/skills-vs-mcp-how-ai-tools-have-evolved-3pmk", "published_at": "2026-07-30 17:50:23+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-30 18:04:33.776572+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Greggyb"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skills-vs-mcp-how-ai-tools-have-evolved", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skills-vs-mcp-how-ai-tools-have-evolved.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skills-vs-mcp-how-ai-tools-have-evolved.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skills-vs-mcp-how-ai-tools-have-evolved.jsonld"}}