Claude Skills vs MCP vs HexaHQ.
Every explainer stops at "Skills are know-how, MCP is access." Both are true, and both are useful. What neither one gives you is your company's current rules, handed to the AI before it acts, kept up to date as your team corrects it, and usable in whichever AI each person works in. That is what HexaHQ adds.
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Skills, MCP servers and HexaHQ, side by side
| Claude Skill | MCP server | HexaHQ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The right context, every time | |||
| Your AI follows your company's rules | Instructions it loads when a task matches | Access to a tool, not your rules | Your current rules, before it acts |
| Shared memory for your team | |||
| A correction sticks for the team | Someone edits and re-uploads the skill | Nothing to save it in | Saved for everyone it applies to |
| Shared with your whole team | Admins can give a skill to everyone | Added once, each person signs in | Shared once, each person uses it as themselves |
| Work done in any app | |||
| Reach an app with no MCP server | Instructions only | Someone builds and hosts one | Your AI sets it up from the app's API |
Sources for Claude: Provisioning skills and Custom connectors, checked 11 October 2026.
The one-paragraph version
A Skill is a reusable bundle of instructions the AI loads when a task matches it, so it does that kind of task better. An MCP server gives the AI access to a tool's API, so it can read and change things there. HexaHQ keeps one current version of each company rule and hands the AI the ones that apply before it acts, saves the corrections people make while they work for everyone they apply to, and lets the AI connect an app that has an API but no MCP server, with nothing to build or host. Keep your Skills and your MCP servers. HexaHQ is the part that makes them follow how your company actually works.
Why the distinction matters
A Skill written last quarter still says what it said last quarter. An MCP server will update the CRM record however it is asked to. Neither one knows that Finance changed the discount rule on Tuesday, or that the rule applies to EMEA renewals and not to new deals. HexaHQ is where that rule lives, current, with the people it applies to, so every teammate's AI uses it the next time it does the work.
Give your AI the rules, not only the access.
Keep your Skills and MCP servers. Add your company's current rules. Free to start.