lev-os/agents/search-brave

Brave Search

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

Setup

Run once before first use:

cd ~/Projects/agent-scripts/skills/brave-search
npm ci

Needs env: BRAVE_API_KEY.

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

Related Search Tools

brave-search is for quick lookups. For deeper research:

When to use brave-search:

• ✅ Quick documentation lookups
• ✅ API references
• ✅ Fast fact-checking
• ❌ Deep research (use deep-research or valyu)
• ❌ Multi-perspective (use lev-research)
• ❌ Social sentiment (use grok-research)

See skill://lev-research for comprehensive research workflows.