Does it support image and video search?

Yes, the skill provides dedicated commands to search for image and video content, including support for SafeSearch and high-count result requests.

Can Claude search for recent news with this skill?

Absolutely. It includes a dedicated news endpoint and freshness filters allowing you to filter by the past 24 hours, week, month, or specific date ranges.

Does this skill require an API key?

Yes, it requires a valid BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY set in your environment variables to authenticate with Brave's REST API.

How are rate limits handled?

The skill monitors Brave's X-RateLimit headers and provides guidance on exponential backoff when 429 status codes are encountered.

Is this optimized for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)?

Yes, it features a specific LLM context endpoint designed to provide grounding data with token budget controls, making it ideal for search-augmented agent workflows.

Brave Search Integration

Name: Brave Search Integration
Author: bdmorin

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Web Scraping & Data Collection

Empowers Claude with real-time web access, news, image search, and RAG-optimized grounding via the Brave Search API.

The Brave Search skill integrates high-performance web search capabilities directly into Claude Code, allowing the model to browse the live web, track current events, and find specific media. It features specialized endpoints for LLM grounding (RAG), OpenAI-compatible chat completions with citations, and local POI data, making it an essential tool for developers building search-augmented agents or performing research-heavy coding tasks that require data beyond Claude's training cutoff.

Key Features

01Built-in AI summarizer and Answer engine with citations

021 GitHub stars

03Local POI and rich result data for location-aware applications

04Advanced search operators and freshness filters for precise discovery

05Comprehensive search across web, news, images, and videos

06RAG-optimized grounding with specific token budget controls

Use Cases

01Augmenting AI responses with real-time news and up-to-date technical documentation

02Building search-augmented coding workflows (RAG) directly within Claude

03Extracting specific visual assets or local business data for application development

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add bdmorin/the-no-shop brave-search

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT