MCP server

Brave Search

MCP

Web search without training the ad graph.

Official Brave Search MCP. Queries go to Brave. Keys stay in env.

latest·MIT·Updated this quarter·github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers·Transport: stdio

Claude CodeCursorDesktop

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claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brave-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "…"
      }
    }
  }
}

By Brave

Spec

What the server actually exposes.

brave_web_search
read
Search the web via Brave.
brave_local_search
read
Local / maps-flavored results.

Tool	Does	Access
brave_web_search	Search the web via Brave.	read
brave_local_search	Local / maps-flavored results.	read

Guardrails

Key in env
Read-only
No scrape of the result pages

mcp-brave-search.mcp/tools

Tools

brave_web_search
Search the web via Brave.
read
brave_local_search
Local / maps-flavored results.
read

Last call

{ "ok": true,
  "tool": "brave_web_search",
  "rows": 12 }

Maker

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