Get the MCP vs Skills Decision Kit

MCP and Skills get blurred together constantly, and picking wrong wastes hours. This kit settles it. The one rule: MCP gives Claude new HANDS (it reaches the outside world — a live API, a database, an app), while Skills give Claude new HABITS (a repeatable procedure, done your way). Inside: the Hands-vs-Habits Test as a decision flowchart (does Claude need to touch something outside itself? -> MCP; do you just need it done your way, every time? -> a Skill; both? -> use both together); the full side-by-side table across what-it-is, purpose, where-it-runs, setup, ACCESS-vs-BEHAVIOR, and the question each one answers; a beginner-first MCP setup (one-click connectors, then claude mcp add for remote HTTP and local stdio servers, claude mcp list to confirm, and the local/project/user scopes); how to write your first Skill (SKILL.md = YAML frontmatter with a description plus markdown steps, how it auto-loads, and why only the description sits in context); 10 starter recipes (5 MCP, 5 Skills) plus the GitHub-MCP-tools-plus-a-PR-review-Skill combo move; and 4 myths busted (MCP is a protocol not an npm install; Skills aren't always loaded; MCP servers run on your machine, not Anthropic's; and it's not pick-one — pros use both). Every command verified against the official docs.

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