From MCP Server to AI Skill: A Simpler, More Powerful Way to Analyze Federal Regulation Comments

Last summer I shared an MCP server that let AI tools query public comments on federal regulations. It worked — but hosting and maintaining it was a pain. Today I'm replacing it with something better. The MCP problem The MCP server required a running backend (I hosted on Fly.io with a scale-to-zero VM), had payload size…