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 local-descriptionsgit 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/local-descriptions)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/brave/brave-search-skills/local-descriptions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brave/brave-search-skills/local-descriptions/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/local-descriptions"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brave/brave-search-skills/local-descriptions.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk warn
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 4 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 21 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 29 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 43 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 87 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 | $0.00049 | $0.01108 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00554 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00222 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00111 |
Grade A, and why
local-descriptions 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 -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/local/descriptions?ids=loc4CQWMJWLD4VBEBZ62XQLJTGK6YCJEEJDNAAAAAAA%3D" \ How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Local Descriptions (Search API)
Requires API Key: Get one at https://api.search.brave.com
Plan: Included in the Search plan. See https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/subscriptions/subscribe
Two-step flow: This endpoint requires POI IDs from a prior search.
- Get POI IDs from
local-place-search, or fromweb-searchwithresult_filter=locations(locations.results[].id)- Pass those IDs to this endpoint to get AI-generated descriptions
Quick Start (cURL)
Get POI Description
curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/local/descriptions?ids=loc4CQWMJWLD4VBEBZ62XQLJTGK6YCJEEJDNAAAAAAA%3D" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}"
Multiple POIs
curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/local/descriptions" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode "ids=loc4CQWMJWLD4VBEBZ62XQLJTGK6YCJEEJDNAAAAAAA=" \
--data-urlencode "ids=loc4HTAVTJKP4RBEBZCEMBI3NG26YD4II4PATIHPDYI="
Note: POI IDs are opaque strings returned in web search locations.results[].id. They are valid for approximately 8 hours. The example IDs above are for illustration — fetch fresh IDs via web-search with result_filter=locations.
Endpoint
GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/local/descriptions
Authentication: X-Subscription-Token: <API_KEY> header
Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ids |
string[] | Yes | — | POI IDs from web search locations.results[].id (1-20, repeated: ?ids=a&ids=b) |
Response Format
Response Fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
type |
string | Always "local_descriptions" |
results |
array | List of description objects (entries may be null) |
results[].type |
string | Always "local_description" |
results[].id |
string | POI identifier matching the request |
results[].description |
string? | AI-generated markdown description, or null if unavailable |
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 · 108 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A bac572de3ec5
local-descriptions is a skill published in the GitHub repository brave/brave-search-skills (175 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,108 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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