What it can do: io.github.brave/brave-search-mcp-server

MCP server · brave

What io.github.brave/brave-search-mcp-server declares, asks for and runs, according to the marketplaces we read. Runs on your machine: the AI tool starts this npm package locally: @brave/brave-search-mcp-server. Tools it declares: 8. Environment variables it asks for: 2, secrets among them: 1. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-11.

This is not a security audit. We list what the marketplaces publish about this plugin: what it declares, what it asks for and what it runs. We do not run or inspect its code, and a verified mark is the marketplace's statement, not ours.

Where it runs

Runs on your machine: the AI tool starts this npm package locally: @brave/brave-search-mcp-serverAs declared on: Official MCP Registry.
Runs on your machine, in a container started from this image: mcp/brave-searchAs declared on: Docker MCP Catalog.
Runs on a remote server: your AI tool connects to it over the network. server.smithery.ai/brave/mcpTransport: Streamable HTTP. As declared on: Official MCP Registry.

What it declares

Tools it declares: 8. As declared on: Docker MCP Catalog.

brave_image_search
brave_llm_context
brave_local_search
brave_news_search
brave_place_search
brave_summarizer
brave_video_search
brave_web_search

Prompts and resources: the marketplaces we read do not publish them.

What it asks for

Environment variables it asks for: 1, secrets among them: 1. As declared on: Official MCP Registry.

BRAVE_API_KEY secret required

Environment variables it asks for: 2, secrets among them: 1. As declared on: Docker MCP Catalog.

BRAVE_API_KEY secret required
BRAVE_MCP_TRANSPORT

Names only: we keep no values, examples or descriptions of these variables. OAuth scopes and install-time settings are not published by the marketplaces we read.

What it runs besides MCP

None of the marketplaces we read lists hooks, commands, agents or language servers for it.

Who answers for it

brave

No marketplace we read marks it or its publisher as verified.
License: MIT.
The repository github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server belongs to the account the publisher is listed under on Official MCP Registry.

How it has changed

Its tools, settings, hooks and composition have not changed since we started watching it.

In context

Median number of secrets an MCP server asks for on the marketplaces we read: 0.0. This one asks for: 1.
Share of MCP servers that run on a remote server: 63%.

Where it is published and how its figures have moved

Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on 2026-10-11. We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.