Brave Search

by SawyerHood

Brave Search is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by SawyerHood in middleman.

181 stars21 forkson SawyerHood/middlemanAdded 2026/09/07Repository updated 2026/05/21

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Install Brave Search

Copy Brave Search into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/SawyerHood/middleman/tree/main/apps/backend/src/swarm/skills/builtins/brave-search ~/.claude/skills/brave-search

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/SawyerHood/middleman.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: apps/backend/src/swarm/skills/builtins/brave-search/SKILL.md in SawyerHood/middleman
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/brave-search
Collection: One of 4 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2109 skills

What Brave Search does

Brave Search searches the web and extracts readable page content through the Brave Search API. Use it for documentation, facts, current information, or pulling content from a specific URL without a browser.

Brave Search is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Brave Search comes from a repository tagged agents, ai-agents and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Brave Search

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
Configure BRAVE_API_KEY in the app Settings → Environment Variables. (Fallback for standalone usage: export BRAVE_API_KEY in your shell.)
Dependencies are installed via the backend workspace package. If running this skill standalone, install once from this skill directory:
```
npm install
```

Search

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Brave Search

What else does SawyerHood publish alongside Brave Search?
Brave Search is one of 4 skills that DirSkills catalogs from SawyerHood/middleman, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Cron Scheduling, Image Generation and Memory. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Brave Search does, and is maintained by SawyerHood in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the SawyerHood/middleman page.
How does Brave Search compare to other Automation skills?
Brave Search ranks #1918 by stars among the 2109 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Brave Search against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.