Brave's own index as tools — web, news, image, video, place and LLM-grounding results behind one key.

Full local search and extra_snippets need a Pro plan, and local search quietly falls back to web search without one. The HTTP transport binds to 127.0.0.1 and carries no authentication, so widening BRAVE_MCP_HOST belongs on a trusted network only.

What it is

An MCP server published by Brave that exposes the Brave Search API as agent tools. Queries run against Brave's own web index and come back as structured results, so an agent gets ranked answers without fetching and parsing pages itself.

What you get

Web results filtered by country, language, freshness and safesearch, with custom re-ranking through Goggles definitions.
News results with breaking-news indicators, defaulting to a freshness window of the last 24 hours.
Image results with dimensions and confidence scores, and video results with thumbnail metadata.
Local business and place lookup by coordinates and radius or by location string, returning addresses, opening hours, contact info, ratings, photos, categories and timezone.
Pre-extracted page content for LLM grounding and RAG, bounded by a token budget you set per request and per URL.
AI summaries from Brave's summarization API, with optional entity information and inline source references.

Requirements

A Brave Search API account and a key, supplied as BRAVE_API_KEY, or as a path to a key file in BRAVE_API_KEY_FILE, which takes precedence when both are set. Node.js 22.x or higher.