brave-search

brave-search is an MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode from LEEI1337/phantom-neural-cortex. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A local connector that lets a coding agent search the public web and local businesses through the Brave Search service. It requires a Brave API key, which is a secret credential for using that service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for web searches and searches for nearby businesses through Brave Search.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a way to retrieve search results without manually opening a search engine, provided the required API key is configured.

MCP server for Claude CodeCodexCursorGemini CLIOpenCode

Written for no agent in particular: it speaks MCP, so any client can run it. Also seen: listed in a Claude config.

One of 16 entries in .mcp.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 15 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Use it for web searches and searches for nearby businesses through Brave Search.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/leei1337/phantom-neural-cortex/brave-search
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LEEI1337/phantom-neural-cortex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

brave-search scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.mcp.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "brave-search": {
    "type": "stdio",
    "command": "npx",
    "args": [
      "-y",
      "@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search"
    ],
    "env": {
      "BRAVE_API_KEY": "${BRAVE_API_KEY}"
    }
  }
}
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 13 lines scan A 0e191e891b96

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brave-search is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository LEEI1337/phantom-neural-cortex (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.