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Brave Search

Web and local search grounded in Brave's independent search index, giving agents up-to-date information beyond their training data.

Publisher
Brave
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Install
npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search

The Brave Search server gives an agent access to web and local search results through Brave’s Search API, without routing through another AI vendor’s index.

Why it matters

Models have a training cutoff and no innate awareness of anything after it. A search connector lets an agent verify current information — a library’s latest version, a recent API change, a live status — instead of confidently guessing from stale training data.

Good for

Fact-checking, researching current library versions and APIs before writing code against them, and any task where freshness matters more than the model’s internal knowledge.