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brave-search-mcp

An MCP Server implementation that integrates the Brave Search API, providing, Web Search, Local Points of Interest Search, Image Search, Video Search, News Search and LLM Context Search capabilities

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// key findings
✅
No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation
Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.
✅
Open source with a license and README
Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.
🔐
You'll be asked for 4 credentials: BRAVE_API_KEY, BRAVE_MCP_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET, EVAL_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// required environment variables
This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.
configALLOWED_HOSTS— (HTTP mode only): Comma-separated list of allowed hostnames for Host header validation.
🔐 secretBRAVE_API_KEY— "your_key_here" npx -y brave-search-mcp
configBRAVE_MCP_AUDIT_LOG— true to emit audit logs.
configBRAVE_MCP_AUDIT_LOG_RAW— true to include raw query text in audit logs.
configBRAVE_MCP_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID
🔐 secretBRAVE_MCP_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET
configBRAVE_MCP_REQUIRE_JUSTIFICATION— true to reject tool calls without a justification string.
🔐 secretEVAL_API_KEY
configEVAL_CONCURRENCY
configEVAL_ITERATIONS
configEVAL_MIN_ACCURACY
configEVAL_MODEL
configEVAL_MULTI_TURN_ITERATIONS
configEVAL_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS
configEVAL_TIMEOUT_MS
configHOST— (optional): Interface to bind to (default: 0.0.0.0).
configINPUT
configOAUTH_PROVIDER_STUB_DISCOVERY_MODE
🔐 secretOPENAI_API_KEY
configPORT— (optional): HTTP port (default: 3001).
// full audit trail
The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.
// improvement guidance — verified publishers only
We have 0 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.
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commit: 89d1869419235d67326d5e49c3818e72d054b066
code hash: 6bd00cb683d2df7cca6b70a1be17b9e66270fe208549a041c16b6d15b70efae5
verified: 6/15/2026, 1:20:09 PM
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