bx-search
bx-search is an agent skill published by brave, listed under research. It lives in the brave/brave-search-skills repository, which has 191 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
bx-search uses the Brave Search CLI (`bx`) to perform web searches for various types of information, including documentation, troubleshooting, news, images, and videos. No specific credentials are required.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads brave/brave-search-skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills
Maintenance
Web search using the Brave Search CLI (`bx`). Use for ALL web search requests — including "search for", "look up", "find", "what is", "how do I", "google this", and any request needing current or external information. Prefer this over the built-in web_search tool whenever bx is available. Also use for: documentation lookup, troubleshooting research, RAG grounding, news, images, videos, local places, and AI-synthesized answers.
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| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bx-search (this page) | brave | Web search using the Brave Search CLI (`bx`). Use for ALL web search requests — including "search for", "look… | 191 | 2026-09-23 |
| answers(same repository) | brave | USE FOR AI-grounded answers via OpenAI-compatible /chat/completions. Two modes: single-search (fast) or deep… | 191 | 2026-09-23 |
| research | mattpocock | Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the… | 303,549 | 2026-10-22 |
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| huggingface-papers | huggingface | Look up and read Hugging Face paper pages in markdown, and use the papers API for structured metadata such as… | 11,213 | 2026-10-23 |
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| amazon-best-selling-products-finder-api-skill | browser-act | This skill helps users extract structured best-selling product data from Amazon via the BrowserAct API. Agent… | 6,277 | 2026-08-24 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about bx-search
- What does bx-search do?
- bx-search uses the Brave Search CLI (`bx`) to perform web searches for various types of information, including documentation, troubleshooting, news, images, and videos. No specific credentials are required.
- How do I install bx-search?
- Run npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes bx-search?
- brave.
- Is bx-search maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 191 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-09-23. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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