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  "description_md": "### Server Architecture & Capability Summary\n**Brave Search API Web & Local Discovery MCP Server** (`brave-search-mcp`) is a verified **STDIO** Model Context Protocol (MCP) server curated with **@swyx** for Grok Bot, Claude Code, and Cursor.\n\nPrivacy-first real-time web search, technical documentation lookup, news aggregation, and local business discovery via the official Brave Search API MCP server.\n\n### 1-Click CLI Installation\nRun the command below to register `brave-search-mcp` in Claude Code or your MCP client:\n```bash\nclaude mcp add brave-search -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search\n```\n\n### Standard `mcpServers` JSON Configuration (`.cursor/mcp.json` / `claude_desktop_config.json`)\n```json\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"brave-search-mcp\": {\n      \"command\": \"npx\",\n      \"args\": [\n        \"-y\",\n        \"@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search\"\n      ],\n      \"env\": {\n        \"BRAVE_API_KEY\": \"BSA_your_brave_search_api_key\"\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\n### Exposed MCP Tools\n- `brave_web_search` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `brave-search-mcp`.\n- `brave_local_search` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `brave-search-mcp`.\n- `brave_news_search` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `brave-search-mcp`.\n\n### Authentication & Environment Variables\n- **Transport Protocol:** `stdio`\n- **Auth Mechanism:** `api_key`\n- `BRAVE_API_KEY`: `BSA_your_brave_search_api_key`\n- **Documentation / Source:** [https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers)\n",
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  "description": "Privacy-first real-time web search, technical documentation lookup, news aggregation, and local business discovery via the official Brave Search API MCP se",
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