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- Maintenance problem: Third-party API wrappers require constant updates. {MCP} shifts maintenance burden to service providers — Asana, Slack, Google maintain their own servers.
- **Tools vs. Skills vs. {MCP}**: Tools connect Claude to your internal systems (you maintain). Skills teach procedures (instructions only). {MCP} connects to third-party services (provider maintains).
- Server connection: mcpservers key declares type, URL, name, and auth token. Claude introspects the server — no manual schema writing required.
- Tool discovery: Claude automatically discovers available tools and their schemas from {MCP} server. No integration code needed from you.
- Access control: Set default_config: {"enabled": False} to disable all tools, then enable specific ones in configs. Useful for read-only access or limiting Claude's permissions.
- Beta status: {MCP} connector requires beta header mcp-client-2025-11-20 in requests. Check modelcontextprotocol. io for available servers.
- Short version: Tools for your data, skills for your processes, {MCP} for everyone else's systems. Provider updates their server — you change nothing.
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