Brave Search AI Agent
Give your AI agent live web search via Brave. Research, monitor and report on anything with Oido, on a schedule or from your channels.
What you can automate with Brave Search + Oido
- Monitor your brand or a competitor and post anything new to a channel daily.
- Research a prospect before a call and drop a one-paragraph brief in Telegram.
- Fact-check a claim against current sources instead of the model's training data.
- Track a topic on a schedule and email a weekly roundup of what changed.
Oido connects to Brave Search through the Brave Search MCP server, giving your agent fresh results from the live web instead of stale training data. With Oido's scheduler, recurring research and monitoring run on their own.
How it works
The Brave Search MCP server exposes web and local search as agent tools, keyed by your Brave API key. Oido runs the agent on demand or on a cron schedule and delivers the result to a channel or email.
Oido also ships a built-in web_search tool, Brave Search via MCP is the choice when you want Brave's index specifically or you're standardizing all agents on one search provider. Either way, the agent grounds its answers in what's true today.
Setup
Install the Brave Search MCP server as an Oido extension:
oido extensions install @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-searchOr add it directly to ~/.config/oido/mcp-servers.json:
{
"servers": {
"brave-search": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search"
],
"env": {
"BRAVE_API_KEY": "${BRAVE_API_KEY}"
},
"transport": "stdio"
}
}
}BRAVE_API_KEY, API key from the Brave Search API dashboard.
Confirm the exact source and env vars against the Brave Search MCP server, package names occasionally change.