Claude Code Plugins vs Skills vs MCP: The Layers Explained
Plugins, skills, and MCP servers sit at different layers in Claude Code. What each is, how they nest, and a clear guide to which one you actually need.
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Plugins, skills, and MCP servers sit at different layers in Claude Code. What each is, how they nest, and a clear guide to which one you actually need.
Skills, MCP servers, and subagents solve different Claude Code problems. What each does, what it costs, and a clear decision guide for picking the right one.
Build your own Claude Code Skill from scratch, create a SKILL.md, write a description that triggers it, structure the instructions, add scripts, test it, and share it.
Claude Skills, Claude Code, and Projects get confused constantly. What each one is, where they overlap, and which to use for repeatable work versus coding.
The Claude Code Skills worth using in 2026: bundled /code-review, /debug, /run, /verify, plus installable skill plugins with links and install commands.
What Claude Code Skills are, the SKILL.md format, where they live, how Claude loads them on demand, and a worked example you can drop in and use today.
A map of Claude Code's advanced features, MCP servers, Skills, subagents, hooks, plugins, slash commands, status line, and CLAUDE.md, and when to use each.
Claude Code Skills for IT and infra work, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, shell hardening, and incident runbooks, with example SKILL.md description lines.