Brave Search MCP server (official)

MCP server

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Web, news, image, video and local search with AI summaries, powered by the independent Brave Search API.

Brave's server gives an agent web search, news, images, videos, local business results and Brave's summarizer, all from Brave's own independent index. It needs a Brave Search API key (there is a free tier). Results are read-only search data. Good as a general-purpose, privacy-friendly search tool for research tasks.

Try asking:

"Search for the latest release notes for Next.js and summarise the breaking changes."
"Find coffee shops near Union Square open now."
"What's in the news today about the EU AI Act?"

Sign-in: an API key or token (set it in the install snippet below).

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Optional: fill these in to put them straight into the snippet. They stay in your browser and are never sent to CommandVault.

BRAVE_API_KEY

Add to Cursor

Or add to .cursor/mcp.json (project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (everywhere)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brave-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@brave/brave-search-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

This runs a program on your computer. Check the command, arguments and source before you install it. Source Docs

Brave Search MCP server (official)

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