brave

name	brave
description	Web search and content extraction via Brave Search API. Use for searching documentation, facts, or any web content. Lightweight, no browser required.

Brave

Use this skill when you need lightweight web search or page-content extraction without opening a browser.

When to Use

• Searching for documentation or API references.
• Looking up facts or current information.
• Fetching content from a specific URL.
• Gathering a small set of relevant web results for follow-up reading.

Search

brave search "query"
brave search "query" -n 10
brave search "query" --freshness pw
brave search "query" --freshness 2024-01-01to2024-06-30
brave search "query" --country DE

Search options

• -n <num>: Number of results. Default 5, max 20.
• --country <code>: Two-letter country code. Default US.
• --freshness <period>: Time filter.
  • pd: Past day.
  • pw: Past week.
  • pm: Past month.
  • py: Past year.
  • YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD: Custom date range.

Fetch page content

brave fetch https://example.com/article

Use this to pull readable markdown from a specific page when you already have the URL.

Guidance

• Prefer a narrow query over a broad one.
• Search first, then fetch only promising URLs.
• Start with a small result count, then widen only if needed.
• Summarize findings after searching instead of dumping raw results unless the user asked for verbatim output.