# Brave Search MCP Server

> **Brave Search MCP Server** is a hosted, multitenant Model Context Protocol (MCP) server run by **MewCP** (https://mewcp.com), giving AI agents managed access to Brave Search.
>
> MewCP takes care of all MCP infrastructure for you — credential storage, OAuth flows,
> token refresh, and production-grade auto-scaling — so your AI agents can connect to
> third-party services and run freely without you managing any MCP server yourself.
>
> Server page:  https://mewcp.com/mcp/brave-search
> MewCP docs:   https://docs.mewcp.com
> Full catalog: https://mewcp.com/llms.txt

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## About

Search the web, images, videos, news, and local places through Brave's independent index. Get comprehensive web search with FAQ/Discussion/News/Video results, local business and POI lookup, dedicated media and news endpoints, AI-generated summarization, and pre-extracted, relevance-ranked page content for RAG grounding.

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## Details

- Server ID: `brave-search`
- Version: 1.0.0
- Tools: 8
- Authentication: API key, held by MewCP
- Transport: http

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## Access

The gateway URL below serves your **entire MewCP toolset**, not this server on its
own. Pasting a config snippet is not enough — Brave Search has to be in the toolset
first. In order:

1. Add Brave Search to your toolset at https://mewcp.com/mcp/brave-search
2. Connect your Brave Search account (API key); MewCP stores the credential and attaches it to each call
3. Copy your MewCP API key from the dashboard (Developer)
4. Configure your client with the snippet for it below

Once connected, an agent does **not** see this server's tools as top-level tools.
It sees four meta-tools and reaches everything through them:

- `search(query)` — find tools by keyword across the toolset
- `get_schema(tools)` — full description and arguments for the tools you picked
- `list_accounts(provider)` — only when one app has several connected accounts
- `call_tool(server_maskedId, tool_name, args)` — execute

So the list below is what `search` can return for this server, not a set of
callable tool names on their own.

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## Tools (8)

Descriptions are truncated to 160 characters; call `get_schema`
for the full text and the argument schema. Where a tool is annotated, its type
is shown — treat `destructive` as irreversible.

- `search_web` _(read)_ — Performs web searches using the Brave Search API and returns comprehensive search results with rich metadata. When to use: - General web searches for…
- `search_local` _(read)_ — Searches for local businesses and places via the Brave Search API. Returns ratings, addresses, phone numbers, hours, and AI descriptions. Access to enriched…
- `search_videos` _(read)_ — Searches for videos via the Brave Search API. Returns titles, URLs, durations, view counts, creators, and thumbnails.
- `search_images` _(read)_ — Searches for images via the Brave Search API. Returns direct image URLs, source pages, and dimensions. Images are returned as URLs — no base64 encoding.
- `search_news` _(read)_ — Searches for current news articles via the Brave Search API. Returns headlines, sources, publication age, and descriptions.
- `search_places` _(read)_ — Retrieves points of interest (POIs) with structured business data via Brave's dedicated place-search endpoint. Returns addresses, hours, ratings, categories,…
- `summarize_search_results` _(read)_ — Retrieves an AI-generated summary of web search results using Brave's Summarizer API. Workflow: call search_web with summary=true first, then pass the returned…
- `get_llm_context` _(read)_ — Retrieves pre-extracted, relevance-ranked web content using Brave's LLM Context API, optimised for AI agents, LLM grounding, and RAG pipelines. Unlike a web…

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## Connect

Gateway URL: https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp

Every request carries one header:

    Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>

Replace `API_KEY` with your own key from the dashboard (Developer).

## Apps

### Claude Desktop

Mac & Windows app

- macOS: `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
- Windows: `%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json`

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mewcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote@latest",
        "https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization: Bearer API_KEY"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Already have an "mcpServers" section in your config? Just add the server entry inside it.

1. Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → "Edit Config"
2. Paste the snippet inside the outer { } of the config file (merge with your existing "mcpServers" section if you have one)
3. Save the file and restart Claude Desktop
4. Start a new conversation — your tool will be available

### VS Code

Copilot / Cline

- Command Palette → "MCP: Open User Configuration" (opens mcp.json). For one project only, use .vscode/mcp.json instead.

```json
{
  "mcp.servers": {
    "mewcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Already have a "servers" section in your mcp.json? Just add the server entry inside it.

1. Open VS Code → Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P)
2. Run "MCP: Open User Configuration" to open your mcp.json
3. Paste the snippet and save
4. Start the server when prompted (or from the MCP servers view) and use it in Copilot Chat

### Cursor

AI-first editor

- macOS: `~/.cursor/mcp.json`
- Windows: `%USERPROFILE%\.cursor\mcp.json`

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mewcp": {
      "url": "https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Already have an "mcpServers" section in your mcp.json? Just add the server entry inside it.

1. Open Cursor → Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP
2. Click "Add new global MCP server"
3. Paste the snippet and save
4. Restart Cursor

### Codex

OpenAI's CLI agent

- Add the snippet to your Codex MCP config or your standard MCP config file for the CLI tool you use.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mewcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Codex generally reads a standard MCP server block, so you can add this alongside your other configured servers.

1. Open your Codex MCP config or project-level config file
2. Paste the MewCP server block inside the config JSON/TOML structure your tool expects
3. Save the file and restart Codex
4. Verify the tool is available inside a fresh session

### Claude Code

Anthropic's CLI agent

- ~/.claude.json (user scope) or .mcp.json in your project root — create it if it doesn't exist. Or skip the file and use the CLI command below.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mewcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Already have an "mcpServers" section in your config? Just add the server entry inside it.

1. Open ~/.claude.json (or .mcp.json in your project root) in a text editor
2. Paste the snippet inside the outer { } (merge with your existing "mcpServers" section if you have one)
3. Save the file and start (or restart) Claude Code
4. Or skip the file entirely and run the CLI command below instead

### OpenCode

Open-source terminal agent

- ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json (global) or opencode.json in your project root — create it if it doesn't exist.

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "mewcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp",
      "enabled": true,
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Already have an "mcp" section in your opencode.json? Just add the server entry inside it.

1. Open ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json (or opencode.json in your project root) in a text editor
2. Paste the snippet inside the outer { } (merge with your existing "mcp" section if you have one)
3. Save the file and start (or restart) OpenCode

### OpenClaw

Self-hosted agent gateway

- ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json — create it if it doesn't exist.

```json
{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "mewcp": {
        "transport": "streamable-http",
        "url": "https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp",
        "enabled": true,
        "headers": {
          "Authorization": "Bearer API_KEY"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Already have an "mcp" section in your openclaw.json? Just add the server entry inside "servers".

1. Open ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json in a text editor
2. Paste the snippet inside the outer { } (merge with your existing "mcp" section if you have one)
3. Save the file and restart OpenClaw

### Antigravity

Google's agentic IDE

- ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json (global) or .agents/mcp_config.json (workspace-local) — create it if it doesn't exist.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mewcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Already have an "mcpServers" section in your config? Just add the server entry inside it. Remote servers must use the "serverUrl" field — the legacy "url"/"httpUrl" fields aren't supported.

1. In the editor's agent side panel, click "…" → "MCP Servers" → "Manage MCP Servers" → "View raw config" (Antigravity CLI: type /mcp instead to open the Interactive MCP Manager)
2. Paste the snippet inside the outer { } (merge with your existing "mcpServers" section if you have one)
3. Save the file — the server connects automatically

### Hermes

Nous Research's CLI agent

- config.yaml in your Hermes config directory (~/.hermes) — add this under a top-level "mcp_servers:" key.

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  mewcp:
    url: "https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp"
    headers:
      Authorization: "Bearer API_KEY"
```

Already have an "mcp_servers" section in your config.yaml? Just add the server entry inside it.

1. Open config.yaml in your Hermes config directory
2. Paste the snippet under the top-level "mcp_servers:" key (merge with existing entries if you have any)
3. Save the file, then run /reload-mcp in Hermes (or start a fresh session)
4. Ask Hermes "Tell me which MCP-backed tools are available right now" to confirm it connected

### DeepSeek Harness

DeepSeek's agent harness

- cordis.yml in your DSH project — or the patch file you mount plugins from.

```yaml
- id: mcp-mewcp
  name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client'
  config:
    serverName: mewcp
    transport: streamable-http
    url: https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp
    headers:
      Authorization: "Bearer API_KEY"
```

One plugin instance = one MCP server. Add this entry to your plugin list; don't nest it inside another entry.

1. Open cordis.yml (or your patch file) in your DSH project
2. Paste the entry into your plugin list, keeping the leading dash and indentation
3. Restart DSH (or let HMR reload) — tools register as mcp__mewcp__<tool_name>
4. Verify with: dsh web --dump-config | grep -A3 mcp

## SDKs

### Python

fastmcp client

```python
import asyncio
from fastmcp import Client
from fastmcp.client.transports import StreamableHttpTransport

SERVER_URL = "https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp"
API_KEY = "API_KEY"

transport = StreamableHttpTransport(
    url=SERVER_URL,
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}",
    }
)

async def main():
    client = Client(transport)
    async with client:
        tools = await client.list_tools()
        print(tools)

asyncio.run(main())
```

1. Install fastmcp: pip install fastmcp
2. Copy the snippet into your project
3. Replace API_KEY with your key from the dashboard
4. Run your script

### TypeScript

MCP SDK

```typescript
import { Client } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/index.js";
import { StreamableHTTPClientTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/streamableHttp.js";

const SERVER_URL = "https://gateway.mewcp.com/personal/mcp";
const API_KEY = "API_KEY";

const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(new URL(SERVER_URL), {
  requestInit: {
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${API_KEY}`,
    },
  },
});

const client = new Client({ name: "mewcp-client", version: "1.0.0" });
await client.connect(transport);

const tools = await client.listTools();
console.log(tools.tools.map((t) => t.name));
```

1. Install: npm install @modelcontextprotocol/sdk
2. Copy the snippet into your project
3. Replace API_KEY with your key from the dashboard
4. Run with Node 18+ as an ES module (e.g. npx tsx script.ts)