Setup
Five Connectors to Add Before You Use Claude Code
One line of text each. They let Claude Code look things up, read websites, use a browser, see your site's numbers and reach your other apps. Three of the five cost nothing to try.
Free. No email, no signup — the link downloads it.
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Out of the box, Claude Code can only work with the files on your computer — it cannot search the web, open a browser or look inside your other apps. So you become the go-between: you search, copy the page, paste it in, check the result in your browser, read your own analytics and type the numbers back. A connector (the technical name is an MCP server) gives Claude Code one of those abilities, and each one removes a trip. This covers five: Perplexity for live web search, Firecrawl for reading any page as clean text, Playwright for a browser it can click through, PostHog for your real visitor numbers, and Composio for Gmail, Slack and a thousand other apps. Each has its install line, what it needs, and a first thing to ask.
What's inside
- The exact line to paste for each of the five, and a prompt to try it with
- Which two are free with no account — the ones to add first
- Perplexity needs a paid API key, billed per use and separate from a Pro subscription
- How to check they are connected, remove one, and stay in control of what they do