Free Lesson
Agent Skills vs MCP: What’s the difference?
30 min
Jan 2, 2026 11:00 AM
Virtual (Zoom)
In this video
What you'll learn
Agent Skills and MCP (simply explained)
Understand what Agent Skills and MCP do, how they work, and how they fit into AI development.
When to use Skills vs MCP
Learn a simple decision framework for choosing Skills or MCP based on your use case, complexity, and tooling needs.
Reusable Skill and MCP templates
Walk away with concrete example templates you can adapt for your own agents and projects.
Why this topic matters
As AI systems get more capable, the main bottleneck isn’t model quality. It’s how you connect models to tools and context. While Skills and MCP give us two ways to do this, each has its strengths and weaknesses. In this lesson, you’ll learn how they work, when to use each, and how to apply them to real agent-building workflows without unnecessary complexity.
You'll learn from
Shaw Talebi
Ex-Toyota Data Scientist with 8+ years in AI. Teaching over 100k learners.
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