REPO PACKAGE
brave brave-search-skills
OFFICIAL12skills
0ready to use
LABSCO SUMMARY
One skill, web-search, is the plain ranked-results endpoint. bx-search wraps that same query through a local bx CLI binary instead of the API directly, and its own description says to prefer it over an agent's built-in web-search tool whenever bx is installed; bx itself goes further and folds search, deep research, images, video, news and places into one all-in-one skill. Two skills are built specifically for feeding an LLM rather than a person: llm-context returns pre-extracted page content for RAG grounding and is the one the README itself marks "recommended" for AI use, and answers is an OpenAI-compatible chat/completions endpoint with citations, in either a fast single-search mode or a streaming "deep research" mode. The rest are narrower endpoints — images-search, videos-search, news-search, local-pois, local-descriptions, suggest (autocomplete) and spellcheck.
The README lists Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI, VS Code, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, Goose, Amp and Roo Code as supported, with a separate install path for each — plugin marketplace, curl, git clone, or the third-party openskills installer. Every skill description reads as a short "USE FOR X" instruction rather than worked examples, so this suits someone who already knows Brave's API shape and wants their agent routed to the right endpoint, more than someone learning the API from scratch. None of it is useful without a Brave Search API key, and the README does not say what that key costs or what its rate limits are.
READ THE FULL ANALYSIS
Where the overlap sits. bx-search and web-search describe the same underlying web search, one through the CLI and one through the API, and bx covers both plus five other endpoints in a single skill. A reader picking among the 12 is partly choosing between three different doors onto the same search.
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brave-search-skills
Official Brave Search API skills for AI coding agents
WHAT'S INSIDE
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SETUP
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answers
Ask a question and get back an answer written from live web results, with links to where each fact came from — quickly for a simple question, or after a longer dig for a hard one.
bx
Puts Brave's whole search service behind one terminal command — web pages with the text already pulled out of them, plus news, images, videos, local places and written answers.
bx-search
Tells your AI assistant to run every web search through Brave's search command instead of whatever search it would normally use.
images-search
Searches the web for pictures, up to 200 at a time, each one with a thumbnail and a link to the page it was found on.
llm-context
Searches the web and hands back the actual text, tables and code from the pages it finds, so your own AI can read them and write the answer itself.
local-descriptions
Writes a few paragraphs about one particular restaurant, shop or landmark — what it is and what it is known for — drawn from what the web says about it.
local-pois
The follow-up step after a place search: hand it the restaurants or shops that came back and it returns everything known about each one, from opening hours to price range.
news-search
Searches news coverage rather than the whole web, and returns each article with its headline, the outlet that published it and how long ago it went up.
spellcheck
Checks a typed search query for spelling mistakes and hands back the corrected wording.
suggest
Finishes the search someone has half-typed — the few letters go in, and the queries they most likely mean come back fast enough to show on the next keystroke.
videos-search
Finds videos on a topic from across the web, and tells you how long each one runs, how many views it has and who posted it.
web-search
Brave's main search, for a program to call: a query in, and the matching web pages back, ranked, each with a link, a snippet and a thumbnail, plus any news, videos or common questions on the subject.
No skill in this package matches that.
HOW TO GET IT
WHOLE PACKAGEInstall the whole package (12 skills)
npx skills add brave/brave-search-skillsSINGLE SKILLOr install a single skill
npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills --skill <name> --full-depthPick the skill name from the Skills tab — each entry there installs independently.
PLUGIN MARKETPLACEAdd the marketplace, then install the plugin
/plugin marketplace add brave/brave-search-skills/plugin install brave-search-skills@brave-searchTyped inside the agent's own prompt, not in a terminal. The marketplace is called brave-search, which is the part after the @.