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* docs: link Sam Morrow's Progressive Discovery in MCP (Part 2)

* docs: link Angie Jones's "Skills Over MCP" article

* docs: mark open-questions and experimental-findings as not actively maintained

* docs: soften approaches doc and mark SEP working draft as not actively maintained
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- **Anthropic's guidance on progressive disclosure:** [Equipping agents for the real world with agent skills](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/equipping-agents-for-the-real-world-with-agent-skills)
- **"MCP and Skills: Why Not Both?"** (Kurtis Van Gent): [kvg.dev/posts/20260125-skills-and-mcp/](https://kvg.dev/posts/20260125-skills-and-mcp/) — Frames MCP (connectivity) and Skills (context saturation) as complementary; discusses hybrid approaches
- **"Skills Over MCP"** (Angie Jones, Agentic AI Foundation): [aaif.io/blog/skills-over-mcp/](https://aaif.io/blog/skills-over-mcp/) — "Ship the manual with the product": bundle Agent Skills with MCP servers so agents get both tools and instructional guidance. Describes the working group's proposal (SEP-2640) — `skill://` resources, a `skill://index.json` catalog for lightweight discovery, and progressive disclosure of full instructions on demand
- **"Progressive Discovery in MCP, Part 2"** (Sam Morrow, GitHub MCP Server maintainer): [sam-morrow.com/blog/progressive-discovery-in-mcp-part-2](https://sam-morrow.com/blog/progressive-discovery-in-mcp-part-2) — Advocates skills-based progressive discovery to solve tool bloat: `skill://` resources, deferred tool loading via provider mechanisms (Anthropic `tool_reference`, OpenAI `defer_loading`), and the `io.modelcontextprotocol/tools` metadata namespace. Grounded in lessons from GitHub's MCP Server (100+ tools, 12M weekly calls)
- **Conceptual spec visualization** (Keith Groves): [enact-465fb1fc.mintlify.app/specification/draft/server/skills](https://enact-465fb1fc.mintlify.app/specification/draft/server/skills) — "What if" exploration
- **llms.txt convention:** [llmstxt.org](https://llmstxt.org/) — Convention for making documentation LLM-accessible; used by [MCPDoc](https://github.com/langchain-ai/mcpdoc) in a way similar to how skills work
- **AWS Agent SOPs:** [docs.aws.amazon.com/…/agent-sops](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-mcp/latest/userguide/agent-sops.html) — Pre-built operational workflows as skill-like guidance