Brave Search
Web search and content extraction via Brave Search API. Use for searching documentation, finding information.
Details
Brave Search provides web search and content extraction via the Brave Search API. Use for searching documentation, finding live information, and research.
When to use
Use when the agent needs web search or doc lookup. Requires Brave Search API key; alternative to Tavily if you prefer Brave’s index or pricing.
How Brave Search fits into your OpenClaw setup
Development skills are the workhorses of an OpenClaw setup. They give your assistant the ability to participate in real engineering work — reading and writing code, running tooling, and reporting back in the channel where you already collaborate. Brave Search belongs to this group, and like most development skills it pays off fastest when it is wired into the projects you touch every day rather than installed and forgotten.
What working with it looks like
Day to day, Brave Search gets invoked the way you would delegate to a colleague: state the goal, let the assistant choose the tool, and review what comes back. Output lands in your team channel, so command results and follow-ups stay attached to the conversation that prompted them — useful when someone asks three weeks later why a change was made.
Installing Brave Search
Setup takes a few minutes. Open a terminal in your OpenClaw directory, run the command below, and restart the assistant so it picks up the new capability. Check the skill's README before first use — if it needs an API key or account access, you want that configured up front.
Verify the install with a deliberately simple test before relying on it for real work. A thirty-second check separates a skill that is not installed from one that is misconfigured — two failures that look identical from inside a conversation and waste time when discovered late.
clawhub install brave-searchGetting the most out of it
Think of Brave Search as one instrument in an ensemble. OpenClaw's real strength is composition — the assistant combining several skills in a single task because the request demanded it. When you browse the catalogue, look for the skills that complete your workflows, not just the ones that sound impressive in isolation.
And if you would rather not assemble this yourself, we do it for a living: OpenClaw installation, a skill set chosen and configured around how you work — including Brave Search where it fits — and custom skills built where the catalogue stops short.