Anthropic’s new Agent Skills make extending models lighter than spinning up full MCP servers — and they play nicely together. Instead of loading every tool, your agent loads just the metadata from SKILLS.md, preserving precious context window for real work. Hint: Context Engineering.

Not a full MCP replacement (yet), but for many use cases a Skill is faster to stand up and complements existing MCPs.

Nova Canvas as a Claude Skill

I recreated the official Amazon Nova Canvas MCP as a Claude Skill to add image generation — end-to-end in less than 30 minutes; 3 simple steps:

1. Write a SKILLS.md with clear instructions
2. Add scripts + examples
3. Point your agent at the Skill and go

Because every agent deserves awesome image creation superpowers.

Learn more about Agent Skills