Vincent - Brave Search for agents

Use this skill to search the web and news using Brave Search. All requests are proxied through the Vincent backend, which handles authentication with the Brave Search API, enforces rate limits, tracks per-call costs, and deducts from your credit balance automatically.

No API keys to manage. The agent authenticates with a Vincent API key scoped to a DATA_SOURCES secret. Vincent handles the upstream Brave Search API credentials server-side -- the agent never sees or manages Brave API keys.

All commands use the @vincentai/cli package. API keys are stored and resolved automatically — you never handle raw keys or file paths.

Security Model

This skill is designed for autonomous agent operation with pay-per-call pricing and human oversight.

No environment variables are required because this skill uses agent-first onboarding: the agent creates a DATA_SOURCES secret at runtime by calling the Vincent API, which returns a scoped API key. The CLI stores the returned API key automatically during creation. The config paths where the key is persisted (${OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR:-$HOME/.openclaw}/credentials/datasources/ or ./datasources/) are declared in this skill's metadata.

The agent's API key is not a Brave Search API key. It is a scoped Bearer token for the Vincent proxy. The Vincent server authenticates with Brave Search on the agent's behalf. The agent cannot access the upstream API directly or bypass the proxy's credit and rate-limit enforcement.

Model invocation is intentionally enabled. The purpose of this skill is to give AI agents autonomous web search capabilities. The agent is expected to search the web and news on its own. The human controls spending through credit balance and payment method management at https://heyvincent.ai.

All API calls go exclusively to heyvincent.ai over HTTPS/TLS. The Vincent server then calls the Brave Search API. The agent does not contact Brave directly.