Guide: Connecting Brave Search to Cursor and Claude Desktop
The Brave Search MCP server is used to: Global web search using the Brave Search API. Provides the AI with access to the latest online information. Instead of manually writing configuration files, use the generator on the right.
AI Skills (Prompt Recipes)
Copy these prompts and send them to Claude/Cursor after connecting the tool to activate the skills:
Competitor Monitoring
Find the latest news mentions of company X over the last 48 hours and summarize their strengths and new product announcements.
Common Troubleshooting Issues:
- Missing commas in
claude_desktop_config.json, which crashes the entire client. - Incorrect slash escaping in Windows paths (use
\\\\instead of\\). - Incorrect arguments syntax in the JSON array.
Fill in the fields below to generate the JSON config, CLI command, or schema for AI agents.
claude_desktop_config.json
Terminal / Console
Tool JSON Schema for OpenAI/CrewAI
LangChain Python Tool