ZhiKe AI

May 16, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Skills vs. Prompts, Projects, MCP, and Subagents: Choosing the Right Claude Building Block

This guide explains Claude’s core building blocks—Skills, Prompts, Projects, Subagents, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—detailing their purposes, loading behavior, persistence, and ideal use cases, and shows how to combine them into powerful AI agent workflows.