Claude Setup and Power User Skills
5 MCPs That Turn Claude Code Into a Superpower
Playwright, Perplexity, Context7, Firecrawl, Sequential Thinking. Out of the box Claude Code is limited. These 5 fix the biggest gaps.
Out of the box, Claude Code cannot browse the live web, search for current information, or scrape a URL. Model Context Protocol servers close those gaps by giving Claude access to external tools and data sources. These five are the ones that actually get used consistently. Each one closes a specific, recurring failure mode.
How to do it
- 1Playwright MCP: gives Claude a real browser. It navigates pages, clicks elements, fills forms, and extracts structured content from any URL
- 2Perplexity MCP: live web search inside Claude. Ask about current events, recent releases, live pricing. Claude gets real answers with sources attached
- 3Context7 MCP: loads live documentation from 10,000 or more libraries on demand. Claude stops hallucinating API references because it reads the actual docs
- 4Firecrawl MCP: structured web scraping in one prompt. Paste a URL and Claude returns clean markdown content with all the relevant data extracted
- 5Sequential Thinking MCP: forces Claude to reason step-by-step before acting. Reduces errors significantly on multi-step or logic-heavy tasks
- 6Install any MCP with `claude mcp add [server-name]` in the CLI, then verify with `/mcp` to see active tools
Why it works
Each MCP closes a different gap. Playwright and Firecrawl handle web access. Context7 handles documentation. Perplexity handles live search. Sequential Thinking handles reasoning quality. Together they cover 90% of the cases where Claude Code fails without them.
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