Brave Web Search

Searches the web and fetches AI-generated summarized answers using the Brave Search API. Exposes two commands: brave-search for ranked web results and brave-answer for concise AI summaries.

Instructions

1. Trigger: Activate when the user wants to look something up on the web, check recent news, or get a factual answer to a question.

2. Setup: No installation step is required — this skill has zero external dependencies and runs on native Node.js.

3. Command selection:

   • Use brave-search for general web searches where ranked results with URLs and snippets are useful.
   • Use brave-answer for direct factual questions where a concise AI summary is more appropriate.

4. Execution: Invoke the script by passing the command name and parameters as separate arguments, never by interpolating user input into a shell command string. Use an argument array / execFile-style invocation so the shell never parses user-supplied values. Example (Node-style pseudo-code):

   execFile('node', ['index.js', 'brave-search', '--query', userQuery, '--count', '10'])
   

   Do not construct the command as a single concatenated string such as "node index.js brave-search --query " + userQuery.