·guide·Fasad Salatov
Build a research stack with MCP
Five servers that turn Claude into a research assistant that searches, reads, and files findings into your notes.
A good research loop is: search broadly, read the promising sources, save what matters, and cite it. Here's a stack that does exactly that.
The five
- Perplexity / Brave Search — broad web search with fresh results.
- fetch — pull and clean the full text of a promising page.
- arXiv — for anything academic; grab abstracts and PDFs.
- Wikipedia — fast grounding on entities and definitions.
- Notion (or Vault) — file summaries and quotes with links.
How it flows
You ask a question. The model searches, picks 3–5 sources, fetches their full text, summarizes with quotes, and writes a structured note with citations — all in one turn, because each server is a tool it can chain.
The upgrade
Wrap it in a Skill so every research request produces the same structure (question → sources → findings → open questions). Consistency is what makes research reusable later.
Get the recipe on the quiz or browse research MCPs.