brave-mcp-server
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRAVE_API_KEY | No | Brave Search subscription token. Alternatively, BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY can be used. | |
| BRAVE_BASE_URL | No | Upstream base URL. Defaults to https://api.search.brave.com | https://api.search.brave.com |
| BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY | No | Alternative environment variable for the Brave Search API key. |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": false
} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| web_searchA | 使用 Brave Search 检索互联网，返回标题、链接和摘要。适用于查询当前信息、新闻、文档或任何需要联网才能回答的问题。支持按时效（freshness）、地区（country）、语言（search_lang）过滤，用 result_filter 只取某一类结果，用 goggles 自定义排序。查询语法支持 site:、ext:、intitle:、"精确短语"、-排除词 等运算符。 |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
TDQS
Scored across 1 tool
Only one tool exists, so there is no possibility of confusion between overlapping operations. web_search has a clear, single responsibility.
web_search follows a clean snake_case verb_noun format, which is descriptive and conventional. Although there is no other tool to compare against, the naming is consistent with common MCP conventions.
A single tool is minimal, but for a Brave Search server the scope is appropriately narrow and the tool fully represents the server's purpose. It feels slightly thin compared to typical MCP servers, but it is not inappropriate.
The web_search tool exposes the main Brave Search capabilities including general web queries, freshness/country/language filters, result type filtering, and custom ranking. For a search-only server, there are no obvious missing operations.