https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chris_ivesterHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:09:54 +0000This is exactly right, and I'd add one more layer that the thread is mostly missing: this combination matters most when the agent itself is hosted in the cloud rather than running locally. Skills + MCP is the architecture for cloud-hosted agents - Skills give the agent its context and workflow, MCP tools give it reach into external services without the agent needing to manage credentials or runtime dependencies.

]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:22:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715147chris_ivesterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715147https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715147This might be up your alley - have Posthog and a ton of other SaaS tools connected so you can run analysis across quant/qualitative data sources: https://dialog.tools

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:12:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683500chris_ivesterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683500https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683500