08/13/2026
Skills. MCP. Subagents.
All three are tied to the same agentic process, but they complete different functions.
Here’s the simplest breakdown ever:
• Skills: How Claude works
These are reusable instructions, templates, scripts, checklists, and rules for doing a task consistently.
• MCP: What Claude can access
A standard way to connect Claude to tools and systems like GitHub, Jira, databases, APIs, Figma, and internal platforms.
• Subagents: Who handle the side work
Specialised agents that take on focused parts of a complex workflow in their own context, then return the result to the main session.
Put them together, and Claude can do much more than answer prompts.
Pull data from your systems, delegate specialised work, and apply your organisation’s processes to the final output.
Want to see how the full Anthropic stack fits together?
Join Zazmic’s live Anthropic webinar on August 26 covering Claude Code, Cowork, MCP, Skills, custom agents, and more.
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