MCP, Skills & Plugins: the big three
Ek inflection-point din. Teen building blocks jo aap ke Claude Code ko level up karte hain — ek hi idea par built: tools. Yahan naksha hai, is ke niche maujood breakthrough, aur MCP, in teeno mein se pehla.
Kuch din aap ki soch badal dete hain. Yeh un mein se ek hai. Week 2, day 3 mein khushamdeed — woh din jab aap ki expertise ek line cross karti hai. Hum teen aise building blocks cover kar rahe hain jin ke baare mein is field mein har koi baat karta hai, aur aakhir mein aap ko bilkul clarity ho gi ke har ek ko kab use karna hai.
Aaj ek bohot bara din hai, aur shuru mein is ka kuch hissa overwhelming lag sakta hai. Yeh bilkul theek hai — hum is material par poore week aur agle week tak baar baar wapas aatein hain. Pehle pass ka maza lein; aap ise kafi sunein ge.
01The big three ek nazar mein
Yeh seedha Andrej Karpathy ke us tweet par wapas jata hai jis ne course ka aaghaz kiya tha — coding agent se ziada kaam lene ke tarikon ka ek confusing array. Yeh yahan hain, aur unke beech ka relation hi poora khel hai.
🔌 MCP
Claude Code ko kisi aur ke likhe hue tools se connect karne ka ek standard tarika — "USB-C port for AI."
📄 Skills
Simple Markdown (plus optional scripts) ke taur par expertise. Build karna aasan, share karna aasan, context par light.
📦 Plugins
MCP servers + skills + commands ke bundles, jinhein marketplaces ke zariye sahi se discoverable banaya gaya hai.
In teeno ko alag alag install, uninstall aur activate kiya ja sakta hai, yahi wajah hai ke yeh logon ko confuse karte hain. Is liye hum unhein order se build karein ge aur ek clear decision rule ke sath finish karein ge.
02Har cheez ke niche maujood ek idea: tools
Is se pehle ke in teeno mein se koi samajh aaye, aap ko us innovation ko dekhna hoga jis ke irid-gird yeh sab dance karte hain. Apne zehen ko un chaar tricks par wapas le jayein jo ek plain LLM ko — predictive text on steroids — kisi agentic cheez mein badal deti hain. Un chaar mein se ek sab se aage khada hai: tools.
Jaise jaise yeh text generate karta hai, model aise tokens nikal sakta hai jo lene wale action ko describe karte hain. Hum unhein "aap ek tool call kar rahe hain" samajhte hain, run karte hain, aur result wapas dete hain. Yeh poori trick hai — aur yahi wajah hai ke aap dekhte hain ke Claude Code to-do list check kar raha hai, files edit kar raha hai, aur search kar raha hai. Anthropic ne Claude Code ke andar tools ka ek set bake kar diya, aur woh game-changer tha.
Exciting cheez tools hai — action lene ki salahiyat. MCP, skills aur plugins sirf model ko mazeed tools (ya tool-like abilities) dene ke alag alag tarike hain. Is anchor ko pakad kar rakhein aur baqi sab khud ba khud samajh aa jaye ga.
03MCP — AI ke liye USB-C port
Late 2024 mein, Anthropic ne mehsus kiya ke agar aap kisi ke bhi tools ko general tarike se Claude Code mein add kar sakein, to aap ek bohot bari capability unlock kar dein ge. LangChain jaise frameworks ke paas pehle se tool libraries thi, lekin unhein ek shared standard ki zaroorat thi. Is liye Anthropic ne MCP — Model Context Protocol ka elaan kiya, ise "AI applications ke liye USB-C port" ke taur par describe kiya: AI apps ko external systems se connect karne ka ek open standard.
MCP originally tools, prompt templates aur "resources" (information ke sets) ko support karta tha. Tools wala hissa popular hua. Lekin key point subtle hai aur dohrane ke kabil hai: MCP khud tools nahi hai, aur na hi yeh unhein implement karne wali technology hai. Yeh ek protocol hai — tools ko package karne ka ek agreed tarika taake unhein kisi bhi MCP-ready app mein share kiya ja sake.
Yeh is liye nahi ke yeh bohot clever hai — doosre tarike bhi mojood hain (LangChain wagaira). Yeh ek bari baat is liye hai kyun ke ise bohot ziada adopt kiya gaya. Woh ecosystem — hazaron servers, ratings, marketplaces — yahi hai jo ek single one-line command ko Claude Code ko ek bilkul naya skill sikhane ke liye kafi banata hai.
Do sachay caveats. Pehla, MCP interface hai, magic nahi — behtareen tools ke baare mein excited hon, unhein jodne wale tissue ke baare mein nahi. Doosra, yeh context-efficient nahi hai: ziada juicy servers jod dein aur aap window ko tezi se bhar dein ge. Recent 2026 improvements madad karti hain (Claude Code ab har tool ko eagerly load nahi karta), lekin over-use ab bhi performance ko kharab karta hai aur aap ko tezi se compaction ki taraf dhakelta hai. Yeh limitation bilkul woh hai jise skills fix karne nikle hain — jo agay aa rahe hain.
✓ Aham baatein
- Big three — MCP, Skills, Plugins — sab tool-like abilities add karte hain; har ek alag se install aur activate hota hai.
- Core innovation tools hai: tokens jo action ko describe karte hain, content-generation ko action mein badalte hain.
- MCP ek protocol hai — "USB-C port for AI" — doosron ke tools ko aap ki app se connect karne ke liye.
- Is ki power wide adoption se aati hai, cleverness se nahi: ek command Claude Code ko poore toolset se equip kar deti hai.
- Downside par nazar rakhein: MCP context hog ho sakta hai aur build karna complex hai. Skills aage is par baat karti hain.