brave-search
Web search and content extraction via Brave Search API. Use for searching documentation, facts, or any web content. Lightweight, no browser required.
Install / Use
npx skills add badlogic/pi-skills --skill brave-searchInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Content & MediaSupported Platforms
Our assessment of brave-search
brave-search scores 81/100 on our quality scale, 530th of 768 Content & Media skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 2,558 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated about 4 months ago. That is recent enough to be usable, but agent tooling moves fast, so check the instructions against your agent's current version.
- It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 98/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
brave-search compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than brave-search; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| brave-search (this skill)by badlogic | 81 | 2.6k | 4mo ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 86.0k | 13d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 74.0k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| crawl4aiby unclecode | 100 | 84.4k | 3d ago | MCP Server |
| Scraplingby D4Vinci | 100 | 84.3k | 1d ago | MCP Server |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install brave-search?
- Run
npx skills add badlogic/pi-skills --skill brave-search. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does brave-search work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is brave-search safe to use?
- It is MIT-licensed and scores 98/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is brave-search still maintained?
- The repository was last updated about 4 months ago. That is recent enough to be usable, but agent tooling moves fast, so check the instructions against your agent's current version.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.