# The Brains

Wires a searchable set of founder and investor talks, essays and posts into your agent. Every hit comes back with its source.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI · ★ 75
- Author: VicPitic
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/VicPitic/the-brains
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/the-brains

## What it does

The Brains is an MCP server that searches a person's own material: talks, interviews, essays, posts. Each passage it returns carries a link to the source and a date, so you can check where a claim came from. Useful when you want someone's actual experience with growth, distribution or pricing instead of the model's own guess.

One connector covers the whole directory at `https://mcp.brains.ceo/mcp`, exposing `list_brains`, `search_brains` and `list_sources`. A single person lives at `https://mcp.brains.ceo/<slug>/mcp`, for instance `https://mcp.brains.ceo/pieter-levels/mcp`, with its own `search_brain` and `list_sources`. Transport is streamable HTTP. On the first connection the client opens a sign-in: email plus a six-digit code. No password involved.

In Claude the server goes in with `claude mcp add --transport http the-brains https://mcp.brains.ceo/mcp`, then run `/mcp` and pick Authenticate. Codex takes `codex mcp add the-brains --url https://mcp.brains.ceo/mcp` followed by `codex mcp login the-brains`. Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and GitHub Copilot use the same URL as a custom MCP server in their config. Skip the sign-in and the tools stay silent, so authenticate before your first query.

## Requirements
- Remote server: `https://mcp.brains.ceo/mcp`

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http the-brains https://mcp.brains.ceo/mcp
```

### Codex

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add the-brains --url https://mcp.brains.ceo/mcp
```

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "the-brains": {
            "url": "https://mcp.brains.ceo/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "the-brains": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.brains.ceo/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http the-brains https://mcp.brains.ceo/mcp
```

## When to use it
- find what a specific founder said about pricing
- cite a primary source instead of a model paraphrase
- pull a set of quotes on product growth
- see which distribution channels an investor mentions
- compare how several people approach one problem

## Example prompts
- How would Pieter Levels price this product?
- What did Paul Graham write about startup ideas?
- List the distribution sources in the Naval Ravikant brain

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