Give an AI assistant the ability to run live web searches instead of relying only on training data.
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Lets an AI assistant run actual web searches and read the results — useful for anything involving current events, recent releases, or information likely to have changed since the model's training cutoff, which it otherwise has no way to know about.
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"brave-search": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search"],
"env": {
"BRAVE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}
```
Requires a Brave Search API key (Brave offers a free tier with a monthly query cap — check current pricing before relying on it for heavy use). This gives the assistant search results to read, not autonomous unrestricted browsing — pair it with a fetch-style server if you also want it to read the full content of a result, not just the search snippet.
Verify the current package name and required environment variable against the server's own documentation before use.