Yes
I just had it write a CLI script to download them, and then I had it write a SKILL.md, and didn't have to care about wrapping it up into an MCP
vidarh on Hacker News
In the thread “The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions”, replying to this comment
Helped: Writing CLI scripts and SKILL.md files instead of MCPs.
… E.g. I needed Claude to work on transcripts from my Fathom account, so I just had it write a CLI script to download them, and then I had it write a SKILL.md, and didn't have to care about wrapping it up into an MCP. At a client, I needed a way to test their APIs, so I just told Claude Code to pull out the client code from one of their projects and turn it into a CLI, and then write a SKILL.md. …