Brave Search

SkillWeb & browsing

Gives your agent a brave search skill that looks up web pages and pulls out their content.

Use Brave Search in Claude, ChatGPT or Ahel Desktop

Free. Sign in, add Brave Search and connect your AI. About a minute.

Claude ChatGPT Ahel Desktop

Also: Claude Code · Cursor · Codex

Then ask your AI: use the Brave Search skill

Details

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Account requirements not reviewed. Check the skill instructions before use; ahel provides instructions and does not run this skill.

No other account needed.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Brave SearchStart free

About this skill

Web search and content extraction via Brave Search API. Use for searching documentation, facts, or any web content. Lightweight, no browser required.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by badlogic/pi-skills in brave-search/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Web search and content extraction using the official Brave Search API. No browser required.

Setup

Requires a Brave Search API account with a free subscription. A credit card is required to create the free subscription (you won't be charged).

Create an account at https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/register
Create a "Free AI" subscription
Create an API key for the subscription
Add to your shell profile (~/.profile or ~/.zprofile for zsh):
```
export BRAVE_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
```
Install dependencies (run once):
```
cd {baseDir}
npm install
```

Search

{baseDir}/search.js "query"                         # Basic search (5 results)
{baseDir}/search.js "query" -n 10                   # More results (max 20)
{baseDir}/search.js "query" --content               # Include page content as markdown
{baseDir}/search.js "query" --freshness pw          # Results from last week
{baseDir}/search.js "query" --freshness 2024-01-01to2024-06-30  # Date range
{baseDir}/search.js "query" --country DE            # Results from Germany
{baseDir}/search.js "query" -n 3 --content          # Combined options

Options

-n <num> - Number of results (default: 5, max: 20)
--content - Fetch and include page content as markdown
--country <code> - Two-letter country code (default: US)
--freshness <period> - Filter by time:
- pd - Past day (24 hours)
- pw - Past week
- pm - Past month
- py - Past year
- YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD - Custom date range

Extract Page Content

{baseDir}/content.js https://example.com/article

Fetches a URL and extracts readable content as markdown.

Output Format

--- Result 1 ---
Title: Page Title
Link: https://example.com/page
Age: 2 days ago
Snippet: Description from search results
Content: (if --content flag used)
  Markdown content extracted from the page...

--- Result 2 ---
...

When to Use

Searching for documentation or API references
Looking up facts or current information
Fetching content from specific URLs
Any task requiring web search without interactive browsing

Signals

GitHub stars: 3k
Forks: 222
Last commit: Jun 2026

ahel review

K1binfo
installs-packages

Automated review, not a security audit. Ruleset v1+k2.

Advanced

Item type: skill
Key: pi-skills-brave-search
Source: github.com/badlogic/pi-skills

github.com/badlogic/pi-skills