name: brave-search description: "Fallback search: fast, lightweight web search and content extraction via Brave Search. Use for quick lookups, scoping, or lightweight docs/fact checks when Exa isn't ideal. Load the mcporter skill to execute this skill's MCP calls."

Brave Search MCP

Use Brave Search MCP for web, local, image, video, news, and summarization. This skill documents Brave’s MCP surface and tool parameters.

When to use

•Fast scoping / quick lookups
•News + recency filters
•Image/video/local search
•Fallback when Exa is overkill
•For deep research or code docs, prefer Exa

Query tips

•Use freshness= for news (e.g. pd, pw, pm, py)
•Add summary=true for short snippets
•If summarizer fails or results are too thin, switch to Exa

Output notes

•Some calls return a single top result (not an array). Treat as best-hit

Quick start

bash

brave_web_search query="..." count=5

Common calls

bash

brave_web_search query="..." count=5 summary=true
brave_local_search query="..." count=5
brave_news_search query="..." count=5 freshness=pd
brave_image_search query="..." count=20
brave_video_search query="..." count=20
brave_summarizer key="..." inline_references=true

Query templates

See assets/query-templates.json for reusable parameter templates.

Reference

See reference.md for server setup, tool catalog, and defaults.