CuriouslyC parent
It is. Anthropic builds stuff like MCP and skills to try and lock people into their ecosystem. I'm sure they were surprised when MCP totally took off (I know I was).
I don't think there is any attempt at lock in here, it's simply that skills are superior to MCP.
See this previous discussion on "Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP (github.com/lackeyjb)": https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=45642911
MCP deficiencies are well known:
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mc...