Stop Treating Your AI Like a Chatbot: The 4 MCP Tools That Gave My Agent a Brain

Explores the limitations of using LLMs as simple chatbots and introduces the Model-Context-Protocol (MCP), detailing four essential tools that provide context, planning, and memory to transform AI into a powerful, autonomous engineering partner.

February 20, 2026 · 4 min · David Zhang

Tools vs. Skills vs. MCP

Clarifies the distinction between Tools (primitive functions), Skills (complex workflows), and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in agentic AI, providing an architectural framework for developers to choose the right abstraction for their use case.

February 20, 2026 · 6 min · David Zhang

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