Brave Search

About Brave Search

A reference server that adds web and local search through Brave's independent index, with no tracking.

Search the web via the Brave API.

Installing Brave Search

Runs on demand via npx. Nothing to install globally.

The upstream reference server is archived. It still installs and runs, but is no longer maintained.

claude mcp add brave-search -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brave-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "<your BRAVE_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Not sure where the config file lives, or it isn't picking the server up? Config paths for every client.

Requires BRAVE_API_KEY, get this from the maintainer. Never commit them.

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