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🦁Brave Search

Give Claude live web, news, image, and local search via the Brave Search API.

What it does

Brave's official Search MCP server gives Claude fresh, privacy-first web results.

What it gives Claude:

Web search with AI summaries
News, image, and video search
Local / point-of-interest search

Needs a Brave Search API key (free tier available). Moved out of the modelcontextprotocol/servers monorepo into Brave's own repo — the legacy @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search package is no longer the recommended path.

Installation

Before you start

Get a Brave Search API key (free tier available) at brave.com/search/api. Swap YOUR_API_KEY in the command for it.

1
Make sure Claude is on your device and in your terminal.
MCP servers register with Claude Code via claude mcp add. You need Claude Code installed first:
```
npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
```

Set up the server on your machine.

Setup

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Runs the project's installer (clone + dependencies + config). Follow any prompts. After this finishes, the server is ready to register with Claude Code in the next step.

Configure credentials.
Needs a Brave Search API key (free tier available) from brave.com/search/api, set as `BRAVE_API_KEY`.
Restart Claude Code.
Quit and reopen Claude Code so it picks up the new MCP registration. Run /mcp inside Claude Code to confirm the server is connected.
Use it.
Ask Claude naturally. It will call the server's tools when your request matches one. Tool calls show up inline so you can see exactly what Claude is doing.

Prefer to read the source first? Open on GitHub.