Open-source MCP server searches Paul Graham, Naval and 16 other founders' writings with citations
Otherwise_Vehicle75 · reddit · 2026-10-17
A developer open-sourced (MIT, runs locally) the-brains: one Express server with 18 instances, each indexing a founder's (Paul Graham, Naval, etc.) talks, interviews, essays and posts, curated around growth, pricing and building a business. Two tools — searchbrain and listsources — with every passage linked to its source. Design choices: small corpora (15-45 long-form sources each), plain BM25 over sectioned notes, no vector DB and no LLM at query time; stateless streamable HTTP + OAuth 2.1 with DCR, works in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Claude.ai and ChatGPT.
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