MCP, Skills, and Agents

kept by eddie jan 21

Skills and MCP tools serve different but complementary purposes for coding agent harnesses, and neither replaces the other despite hype cycles claiming otherwise.

Coding sessions in Linear – Changelog
Linear Agent can now write and review code using Claude Code and Codex, enabling end-to-end issue-to-ship workflows from within Linear.
also on Sentry, GitHub, Claude Code, #ai-agents, #ai-coding, #developer-tools
Context Management and MCP
The article argues that MCP's value is in steering agents with rich context descriptions, that progressive disclosure is counterproductive, and that subagents may better manage context rot.
also on Sentry, GitHub, #ai-agents, #user-experience, #software-engineering, #developer-tools