Brave Search
Search & Web
Local
Official
Top 100
2 tools
Ready surface
Web search via the Brave Search API for up-to-date information retrieval.
How to connect
1
Install (Claude Code / CLI)
Run this in your terminal, then restart your client.
claude mcp add brave-search -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search
2
Verify the tools loaded
Confirm
tools/list returns the expected tools before relying on them in production.Listing quality
Observable facts from our catalog and daily probe — not a safe-to-install badge.
- Surface
- Ready surface
- Live handshake
- Not probed
- Auth gate
- Auth unknown
- Tools source
- Catalog tools
Observable catalog + probe facts — not a safe-to-install badge.
Tools
(2)-
brave_web_searchSearch the web via Brave
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brave_local_searchSearch local businesses and places
Tool source: Catalog tools