tashfeenahmed Web Search Skill
Call web_search directly. Its scoped subprocess receives the Brave credential;
generic bash intentionally does not.
Example: { "query": "TypeScript tutorial", "count": 10 }
Quick Reference
{"query":"React hooks tutorial","count":10}
{"query":"AI news","count":10,"freshness":"pd"}
When to Use
Use web_search for:
- Current events: News, sports scores, recent developments
- Research: Looking up people, companies, products, technologies
- Documentation: Finding tutorials, API docs, code examples
- Fact-checking: Verifying information, getting authoritative sources
- General knowledge: Any question about the real world
Output Format
Results are formatted as:
Search results for "query":
1. Title (age)
https://example.com/url
Description of the result...
2. Another Title (2 days ago)
https://example.com/another
Another description...
News results are prefixed with [NEWS] in the title.
Tips
- Use
freshness: "pd"for breaking news. - Increase
countfor research tasks, up to 20. - Be specific in queries for better results.
- Open primary result pages with
webfetchbefore making factual claims.
Environment
Requires BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY environment variable.
Get your API key from: https://api.search.brave.com/