Brave Search

Brave Search gives your agents access to Brave’s independent search index, enabling web, image, video, and news searches without relying on third-party data providers.

Setup

1. In Agent Studio, go to Tools → Brave Search → Connect
2. Paste your API key from the Brave Search API dashboard

Available actions

Action	Description
BRAVE_SEARCH__WEB_SEARCH	Searches the web using Brave’s index and returns ranked results with snippets.
BRAVE_SEARCH__IMAGE_SEARCH	Searches for images on the web using Brave’s search index.
BRAVE_SEARCH__VIDEO_SEARCH	Searches for videos on the web using Brave’s search index.
BRAVE_SEARCH__NEWS_SEARCH	Searches for recent news articles using Brave’s search index.

Adding to an agent

1. Open your agent in Agent Studio → Agent Builder
2. Go to Tools and enable Brave Search
3. Select only the actions your agent needs
4. Set auth mode: Shared (agent acts on one account) or Per-user (each end-user connects their own account)

Example use cases

Real-time research assistant Build an agent that answers user questions by running live web searches through Brave, returning up-to-date information that goes beyond the model’s training data.

News monitoring and summarization Use the news search action to have an agent track breaking stories on specific topics, such as competitor activity or industry trends, and deliver daily digests to your team.

Visual content discovery Combine image and video search actions to build an agent that finds relevant visual assets or reference media for creative briefs, marketing campaigns, or product research tasks.