Five Claude MCP servers — search, browser, docs, tasks, file-to-markdown

Most people don't realize that there's over 5,000 Claude MCB servers out there right now. I tested all of them, these are the five most important ones worth installing. Claude's skills teach it how to do things, but MCB servers actually give Claude the access to do it. Tavoli, a search engine built specifically for AI agents. It does not give you blue links, it gives you clean, structured LLM-ready data. This fixes the problem whenever Claude says that they can't read this website. Playwright, this lets Claude control your browser. This is full browser automation through natural language. Testing, scraping, filling out forms, clicking buttons. This is what makes OpenClaude so good because it's allowed to do work on websites for you without needing API key access. You describe what you want to do like fill out this form for me and it does it for you. Contact 7, this one's a game changer. It pulls up-to-date documentation for whatever you're using. No more Claude hallucinating APIs that don't exist, or giving you methods that are deprecated two years ago. It supports thousands of libraries and can download it pretty easily. Task Manager AI, you feed it a product-required stock and it generates structured tasks with dependencies. Claude then is able to execute them one by one in order. This turns a chaotic coding section into an organized pipeline. Markdownify, this one converts PDFs, images, audio into clean markdown that Claude can actually read. No more getting the error…