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Arun Kumar

Member of Technical Staff, TinkerHood

Writes our comparisons of skills, MCP servers, plugins, subagents and rules, and when to reach for each.

Focus: Comparisons · MCP · Cursor rules

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Cursor rules vs Cursor skills
How Cursor's project rules differ from its agent skills, when each applies, and what we could and couldn't test.
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SKILL.md vs AGENTS.md
When a task-specific SKILL.md applies versus a repository-wide AGENTS.md, with what we tested on Codex and what is documentation.
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Agent skill vs MCP server
A factual comparison of agent skills and MCP servers, what each supplies, and when a workflow needs one, the other, or both.
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Agent skill vs plugin
How a standalone agent skill differs from a plugin package, with a worked example and what we tested versus what is documentation.
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Agent skill vs subagent
The difference between a skill's instructions and a subagent's isolated context, with a worked delegation example.
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