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

Brave Search

Headless web search and content extraction using Brave Search. No browser required.

Setup

Run once before first use:

cd "${CODEX_HOME:-~/.codex}/skills/brave-search"
npm ci

Needs env: BRAVE_API_KEY (primary) or BRAVE_AI_API_KEY (fallback).

The script tries BRAVE_API_KEY first, then BRAVE_AI_API_KEY if the first is missing or rate-limited. If both fail, it falls back to HTML scraping.

Search

./search.js "query"                    # Basic search (5 results)
./search.js "query" -n 10              # More results
./search.js "query" --content          # Include page content as markdown
./search.js "query" -n 3 --content     # Combined

Extract Page Content

./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
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

Attribution

This skill was copied from steipete/agent-scripts.
Upstream: https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts
License: MIT (see LICENSE)