According to AlphaMoat, as of 2026-09, Brave Web Search has 3,803 downloads and 0 stars — ranked #2,772 of 5,078 AI skills overall, and #256 of 442 in Knowledge.

Installs

126

Downloads

3.8K

Stars

Overall Rank

#2,772

Top 55% overall · Top 58% in Knowledge

Platform	Installs	Downloads	Stars	Comments
ClawHub ↗	126	3.8K	-	-
SkillHub ↗	122	3.8K	-	—

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What this skill does

It can return ranked results with URLs and snippets, or concise AI-generated answers. Queries are sent to external APIs, so avoid including sensitive information and verify original sources, freshness, and summary accuracy. Requires Node.js and the relevant Brave API key; pass the query as a separate argument rather than shell text.

Profile published 2026-10-29

What you can do with it

Find web results and source links
Get an AI-generated summary of a question
Add a time range and verify sources for time-sensitive topics

When to use it

When searching the web or quickly organizing information
Check query privacy before submission; open original sources and verify freshness before citing

Example prompts

Generated from the skill’s documentation as examples; not results of actual runs.

Search this question and list reliable source links, marking information that needs checking against originals.

Monthly Trend

Downloads3.8K

Stars-

The counting method changed in 2026-09: skills with the same name are now counted separately by author, and the full catalog is covered. Dashed lines show months before the change; they are not compared with later months, and no growth is computed across the change.

Month	Downloads	MoM	Stars
2026-09	3.8K	—	-
2026-08	3.7K	+4.5%	-
2026-07	3.5K	+9.5%	-
2026-06	3.2K	+5.4%	-
2026-05	3.0K	—	-
2026-03	2.2K	—	-

SKILL.md (original)

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---
name: brave-web-search
description: Searches the web and returns ranked results or AI-generated summarized answers using the Brave Search API. Use for real-time web lookups and factual Q&A.
metadata:
  clawdbot:
    emoji: "🔍"
    requires:
      env: ["BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY", "BRAVE_ANSWERS_API_KEY"]
      bins: ["node"]
    primaryEnv: "BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY"

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category: "Search & Research"
---

# 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):

```javascript
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`.

5. **Freshness**: For time-sensitive queries, pass `--freshness` followed by `pd` (past day), `pw` (past week), or `pm` (past month) as a separate argument to `brave-search`.
6. **Fallback**: If `brave-answer` returns `answer: null`, present the `fallback_results` to the user instead.
7. **Completion**: Present the results clearly, citing titles and URLs for web search results, or the summary text for answer results.

## Security & Privacy

- **Shell Injection Prevention**: User queries **must** be passed as discrete arguments (e.g. via `execFile` or an argv array), never interpolated into a shell command string. Concatenating user input into a shell string (e.g. `shell: true` with template literals) enables shell injection and is strictly forbidden.
- **Instruction Scope**: This skill only sends query strings to the Brave Search and Brave Summarizer APIs.
- **Environment**: It uses the `BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY` and `BRAVE_ANSWERS_API_KEY` provided by the OpenClaw environment.
- **Data Access**: It does not read local files or .env files. All configuration is handled by the agent.