Asking Anthropic Staff to Explain Claude Connectors vs MCP Gets You "RL'd"
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-10-30
The author asked several Anthropic employees if anyone could explain the difference between Claude connectors, skills, plugins, MCPs, and extensions — and jokes they were taken into the agent RL environment and "RL'd until the question went away," poking fun at how tangled Claude's product concept boundaries have become.
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