bx — Brave Search CLI

Agent Directive

When this skill is active, use bx via exec for all web searches. Do not use the built-in web_search tool. Run bx context "query" as the default — it returns pre-extracted, token-budgeted content ready for use. Fall back to bx answers for synthesized explanations or bx web when search operators are needed.

A zero-dependency, token-efficient CLI for the Brave Search API, built for AI agents and LLMs.

One binary, JSON in/out, no runtime dependencies. The default subcommand is context — bare bx "query" is equivalent to bx context "query". It replaces search + scrape + extract in a single call with token-budgeted output — purpose-built for RAG and LLM grounding.

Quick Start

macOS/Linux

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brave/brave-search-cli/main/scripts/install.sh | sh