My Claude Code Setup: 13 MCP Servers, 39 Hooks, and 125 Custom Commands

I've spent 6 months optimizing my Claude Code setup. Here's what I've built and why each piece matters. The MCP Server Stack MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers extend Claude Code with external capabilities. I run 13: GitHub - PR management, code search, issue tracking Brave Search - Web search without leaving the terminal Context7 - Live library documentation lookup Filesystem - Advanced file operations Memory - Persistent knowledge graph Sequential Thinking - Multi-step reasoning for complex problems Playwright - Browser automation from the terminal Stripe - Payment and subscription management SQLite - Database queries and management Fetch - HTTP requests and web scraping Exa - Semantic code search YouTube - Video transcript extraction Custom Hub - My own MCP server with 25+ business tools The Hook System Hooks are scripts that run automatically before/after tool calls. My 39 hooks handle: Quality enforcement: Pre-commit: Run linter, type checker, and tests before every commit Post-