Free Lesson
MCP, CLI, Agent Skill, or Custom Tool?
Part of The Agent-Powered Super IC
45 min
Jun 3, 2026 3:00 PM
What you'll learn
Always pick the right agent wrapper
Five questions to choose MCP, CLI, skill, or custom tool for any workflow.
See where MCP, CLI, skills, and tools actually fit
Match workflow shape to delivery mode: install friction, live data, writes, approvals.
Ship your product into the user's agent
Meet users where they are. Increasingly, the expectation is Codex, Claude, etc can drive your product.
Why this topic matters
MCP, CLI, agent skill, or custom tool? It's the question I keep getting asked, and the hype answer (MCP, obviously) is usually wrong. Each choice quietly decides where code runs, where state lives, and who approves changes. Isaac and I walk through how we actually decide, so you stop shipping the wrong shape of thing and your users actually use what you build.
You'll learn from
Isaac Flath
Independent Developer & Consultant
Hamel Husain
ML Engineer with 20 years of experience.