brave-search

92 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By ratacat/claude-skills (GitHub) · coding · 59 stars · scanned at commit d4b471d

Use when user asks to search the web, look something up online, find current/recent/latest information, or needs cited answers. Triggers on "search", "look up", "find out about", "what is the current/latest", image searches, news lookups. NOT for searching code/files—only for web/internet searches.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 5 places.

skills/brave-search/SKILL.md, line 17export BRAVE_API_KEY="your-api-key"
skills/brave-search/SKILL.md, line 98brave-search web "python async tutorial" --count 10
skills/brave-search/SKILL.md, line 119brave-search images "mountain sunset"

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skills/brave-search/SKILL.md, line 128brave-search news "AI developments" --count 10
skills/brave-search/SKILL.md, line 137brave-search ai "What is the tallest building in the world?"

Connects to the internet

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 6 places.

skills/brave-search/brave.py, line 15import urllib.request
skills/brave-search/brave.py, line 66req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=data, headers=headers, method=method)
skills/brave-search/brave.py, line 69with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=60) as response:

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skills/brave-search/src/brave_search/cli.py, line 17import urllib.request
skills/brave-search/src/brave_search/cli.py, line 68req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=data, headers=headers, method=method)
skills/brave-search/src/brave_search/cli.py, line 71with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=60) as response:

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'brave-search' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'brave-search' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named brave-search already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/ratacat/claude-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'd4b471d05ddad5c69a8c0e1da69fd94e957f0a4b' -- 'skills/brave-search' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/brave-search' ~/.agents/skills/'brave-search' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'brave-search' ~/.claude/skills/'brave-search' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-09	`d4b471d`	92