How to integrate Brave Search MCP with Atomic Agent

Connect Atomic Agent to Brave Search MCP. Search latest ai research news, find official renewable energy sources, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Brave Search is an independent web search service with search, suggestions, and spellcheck tools. It helps you access fresh search results and grounded answers without relying on a single search index.

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Introduction

Atomic Agent is an open-source AI agent that runs on your machine and supports local models through llama.cpp. Connect it to 1,500+ apps through Composio, including Brave Search.

This guide uses Atomic Agent's built-in Composio integration. You need Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later, your own Composio API key, and a Brave Search account. See the Atomic Agent documentation for installation instructions.

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How Atomic Agent connects to Brave Search

Atomic Agent connects to Composio's Tool Router over Streamable HTTP MCP. It discovers the tools needed for your request, and Composio handles account authentication.

Execution and account-connection tools follow Atomic Agent's configured approval policy. Review any approval prompt before allowing an action on your connected account.

Connect Brave Search to Atomic Agent

  1. Sign up or sign in to the Composio dashboard. Copy your API key.
  2. In Atomic Agent, open the Integrations tab and select Composio. Select API key, press e, paste the key, and press Enter. The tools become available immediately, without a restart.
  3. Ask Atomic Agent to do something in Brave Search. It searches Composio for the right tool.
  4. On first use, open the sign-in link returned in the chat. Connect your Brave Search account, then return to Atomic Agent to continue.

Headless setup

Add the following line to ~/.atomic-agent/.env, replacing YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY with your key. Start Atomic Agent after saving the file.

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY

What is the Brave Search MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Brave Search MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Brave Search account. It provides structured and secure access to web search, news, images, videos, places, suggestions, spelling corrections, and grounded answers, so your agent can research topics, find current information, discover local places, and gather sources on your behalf.

  • Web research and grounded answers: Have your agent search the web, generate answers grounded in current online information, or collect source context for research and retrieval tasks.
  • News, image, and video discovery: Let the agent find current news coverage, relevant images, or videos for a topic, campaign, report, or content project.
  • Local place research: Direct your agent to find nearby places and retrieve details or AI-generated descriptions for restaurants, venues, businesses, and other points of interest.
  • Search assistance: Instruct your agent to correct spelling and suggest relevant searches while someone types or explores a new topic.
  • Specialized live results: Have your agent retrieve available rich results for queries such as weather, finance, sports, conversions, or definitions.

Use Brave Search from Atomic Agent

With your account connected, ask Atomic Agent to work with Brave Search in natural language. You can connect more apps through the same Composio integration as you need them.

Visit the Atomic Agent website or inspect the Atomic Agent source code.

Troubleshooting

Why is my API key rejected?

Copy the key directly from the Composio dashboard. Atomic Agent requires ASCII characters because it sends the key in an HTTP header. Remove any extra characters introduced when copying.

Why are Composio tools unavailable after saving a key?

Check that you use Atomic Agent v0.5.6 or later and that Composio is enabled in your configuration. A "composio": { "enabled": false } setting disables the integration while keeping the saved key on disk.

Does Composio have a free plan?

The Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month. Composio-managed OAuth apps have a lower included allowance. See Composio pricing for the current limits that apply to your connection.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Brave Search action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Check Search Spelling

Return Brave spelling corrections for a search phrase; an empty result means no correction was suggested and requires the Spellcheck product.

Generate Grounded Answer

Generate one non-streaming web-grounded answer from a single user message using Brave Answers.

Get LLM Context (GET)

Retrieve token-budgeted web snippets and source metadata for grounding or RAG using URL-friendly parameters.

Get LLM Context (POST)

Retrieve token-budgeted web snippets and source metadata for grounding or RAG with a JSON body, suited to complex requests.

Get Local Descriptions

Fetch AI-generated Markdown descriptions for up to 20 ephemeral POI IDs returned recently by place or web search.

Get Local POIs

Fetch structured details for up to 20 ephemeral POI IDs returned recently by place or web search.

Get Rich Result

Resolve a fresh callback key from a rich-enabled web search into its real-time vertical result, such as weather, finance, sports, conversions, or definitions.

Get Search Suggestions

Return typo-tolerant autocomplete suggestions for a partial query, optionally with rich entity metadata; requires the Autosuggest product.

Search Images

Search Brave's image index and return up to 200 image matches in one non-paginated response.

Search News (GET)

Search Brave's news index with URL-friendly parameters and return one requested page of current news results.

Search News (POST)

Search Brave's news index with a JSON body, suited to long queries or complex Goggles, and return one requested result page.

Search Places

Search Brave's geographic index for POIs and named places.

Search Videos (GET)

Search Brave's video index with URL-friendly parameters and return one requested page of video results.

Search Videos (POST)

Search Brave's video index with a JSON body, suited to long requests, and return one requested result page.

Search Web (GET)

Search Brave's web index with URL-friendly parameters and return one requested result page plus any matching vertical, local, rich-callback, or legacy-summary metadata.

Search Web (POST)

Search Brave's web index with a JSON body, suited to long queries or complex Goggles, and return one requested result page plus matching vertical metadata.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Brave Search MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Brave Search tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Brave Search and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Atomic Agent fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Brave Search tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Brave Search scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Brave Search data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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