Brave Search.

by Anthropic

Privacy-respecting web search for agents.

Install

npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search

Transports

stdio (local)

Tools exposed

§ About

Web search MCP server backed by the Brave Search API. The default web-search tool for many agent stacks because it doesn't require deep Google integration and has a generous free tier for development.

§ Features

Web search with snippet results
Local search for places
Result ranking and freshness controls
Free tier for development

§ Use cases

Research agents grounded on the live webFact-checking agentsUp-to-date Q&A bots

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