To be clear, I don’t use most of MCP tools I have installed, but I follow the development closely and add ones that seem interesting, or that might be useful in the future.
I use Claude Desktop with MCP tools as a substitute for Chat in Cursor.
- Claude has Projects, but it’s annoying keeping the knowledge files updated, especially as the allowed extensions are hard-coded and exclude most files I use that it can actually read.
- I use the Filesystem server so my local files become the ‘Project Knowledge.’
- I have Claude save and read notes/summaries as local files so new chats stay up to speed.
- Sequential-Thinking breaks up tasks, discovers errors, and creates PRDs for features.
- MCP-Reasoner with MCTS is used for hard problems.
- In my Project Knowledge I have a readme file that instructs Claude on what tools to use, and local files to read so I don’t have to keep explaining it.
Other MCP servers are used for:
-Task management, Git, Trello, Todoist
-web search, download
-accessing other models (OAI, DeepSeek, Grok, Perplexity, Gemini)
-knowledge graph/memory, executing code, shell commands, browser automation
These are the best places for MCP discovery (there’s also a link to the MCP Discord)