Brave Search API Skills is a collection of agent skills that gives AI coding agents access to the Brave Search API. It is intended for agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI, and other tools supporting the Agent Skills standard. The catalogue add-ons are the project's own skills and configuration guidance for using Brave Search.
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.
npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills --skill answersgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/brave/brave-search-skills/answers)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/brave/brave-search-skills/answers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brave/brave-search-skills/answers/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/brave/brave-search-skills/answers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brave/brave-search-skills/answers.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk warn
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 10 findings, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 28 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 28 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 39 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 51 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 66 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 71 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 126 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 143 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 164 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 242 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00046 | $0.02467 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.01234 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00493 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00247 |
Grade A, and why
answers scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 13d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -X POST "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/chat/completions" \ How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 252 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Answers — AI Grounding
Requires API Key: Get one at https://api.search.brave.com
Plan: Included in the Answers plan. See https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/subscriptions/subscribe
When to Use
| Use Case | Skill | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quick factual answer (raw context) | llm-context |
Single search, returns raw context for YOUR LLM |
| Fast AI answer with citations | answers (single-search) |
streaming, citations |
| Thorough multi-search deep research | answers (research mode) |
Iterative deep research, synthesized cited answer |
This endpoint (/res/v1/chat/completions) supports two modes:
- Single-search (default): Fast AI-grounded answer from a single search. Supports
enable_citations. - Research (
enable_research=true): Multi-iteration deep research with progress events and synthesized cited answer.
Quick Start (cURL)
Blocking (Single-Search)
curl -X POST "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}" \
-d '{
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "How does the James Webb Space Telescope work?"}],
"stream": false
}'
Streaming with Citations (Single-Search)
curl -X POST "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}" \
-d '{
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What are recent breakthroughs in fusion energy?"}],
"stream": true,
"enable_citations": true
}'
Research Mode
curl -X POST "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}" \
-d '{
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Compare quantum computing approaches"}],
"stream": true,
"enable_research": true,
"research_maximum_number_of_iterations": 3,
"research_maximum_number_of_seconds": 120
}'
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 252 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 3c5488bfcb36
answers is a skill published in the GitHub repository brave/brave-search-skills (175 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,467 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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