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 After forty skills, I had forty pieces of scattered process knowledge with scripts locked inside individual skills, no typed contracts, no reusability, and no clear path to autonomous execution. The scripts weren't going anywhere.
 
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 ## Why MCP tools instead of scripts-in-skills
 
 The decision to extract into MCP rather than keep scripts inside skills comes down to three things: