A Layered Approach to Building AI Agents: Tools, MCP, Skills, and Sandboxes

Author bibryam argues that building AI agents should not default to adding another tool; instead, developers should pick the right abstraction layer for each problem type: tools for coding, MCP for interoperability, skills for workflows, plugins for extension, and sandboxes for isolation.

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