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The Four MCP Servers to Install Before You Open Claude Again

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Out of the box Claude can read your files and run your commands. It cannot search the live web, open a page and click through it, read a site it was not handed, or check the current docs for a library. Four servers close those four gaps. This is the setup guide, with the exact command for each and the caveat nobody mentions.

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The rest of this guide (9 more sections, 4 copy-paste prompts) opens right here. The setup prompt, one paste into Claude that sets it all up, comes by email only. Use your real address.

Unlocks: Exa: search that returns content, not links · Second · Playwright: drives a real browser, and the reason it works · Third · Firecrawl: one page, or the whole site · +4 more

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