# brave-search

> brave-search — nlink-jp-brave-search. Use this tool when you need to retrieve ranked web results with pre-extracted page text and cited answers, ideal for research tasks or question-answering use cases. It takes in search queries as input and outputs relevant results with associated costs, making it suitable for applications where transparency and fairness are crucial. Use Brave Search in contexts where caching is not necessary, such as one-time research queries or model grounding tasks.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/nlink-jp-brave-search  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/nlink-jp-brave-search

## Description

The Brave Search API as a CLI and local MCP server — ranked web results, page text pre-extracted to a token budget for grounding a model, and cited answers from one search or a multi-step research run. Every result prints its cost; nothing is cached (Brave ToS)

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.72
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** container
- **Runtime environment:** vm
- **License:** MIT
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [GitHub](https://github.com/nlink-jp/brave-search)

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "nlink-jp-brave-search"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/nlink-jp-brave-search` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/nlink-jp-brave-search/pull`

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