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Agent, skill, or MCP? Which to use and when to use them | AWS’ Clare Liguori

Agent, skill, or MCP? Which to use and when to use them | AWS’ Clare Liguori18 Aug44 min

Every engineering team wants to build its own custom AI agent, but what if all your organization needs is a standardized skill or a stateless MCP server? This week on Dev Interrupted, Andrew sits down with AWS Senior Principal Engineer Clare Liguori to untangle the ecosystem of modern agentic architecture. They work through how a team decides which AI building blocks to own, and how to get that reach without inheriting a maintenance burden. Clare shares her perspective on the simplified MCP 7...