Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal/main/.claude/skills/brave-search-api/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminalWrote 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/s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal/brave-search-api)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal/brave-search-api"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal/brave-search-api/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/s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal/brave-search-api"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal/brave-search-api.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 7 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 20 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 33 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 41 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 50 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 56 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 80 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 | $0.00042 | $0.00666 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00021 | $0.00333 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00133 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00067 |
Grade A, and why
brave-search-api 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 10d 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.
description: This skill enables web searching using Brave Search API directly via curl. Use when searching for current information, news, articles, or web content. MCP server not required - calls API directly. How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Brave Search API (Direct)
Overview
This skill enables web searching using the Brave Search API directly via curl commands. No MCP server required - saves context tokens.
API Key
Environment variable: BRAVE_API_KEY
Web Search
Endpoint
GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search
Parameters
q(required): Search querycount(optional): Results count (1-20, default 10)offset(optional): Pagination offset
Usage
Generate and execute this curl command:
curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=QUERY&count=10" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_API_KEY"
Example
curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=xterm.js+WebGL+tutorial&count=5" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_API_KEY" | jq '.web.results[] | {title, url, description}'
Local Search
Endpoint
GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/local/search
Usage
curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/local/search?q=coffee+near+Shibuya" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_API_KEY"
Response Processing
Use jq to extract relevant fields:
# Get titles and URLs
| jq '.web.results[] | {title, url}'
# Get descriptions
| jq '.web.results[] | {title, description}'
# Get first 3 results
| jq '.web.results[:3]'
Common Workflows
Research a Technology
curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=VS+Code+extension+development+2024&count=10" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_API_KEY" | jq '.web.results[:5] | .[] | {title, url}'
Find Error Solutions
curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=WebGL+context+lost+solution&count=10" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_API_KEY" | jq '.web.results[] | {title, url, description}'
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 97 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A b236accb78d8
brave-search-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal (21 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 666 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 2026-09-01.
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