Brave Search.

Drop this into your client's MCP config — claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, or .cursor/mcp.json for Cursor — then restart the app. Replace placeholder paths and credentials with your own.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brave-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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.

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