Agent skill

Brave Image Search

Searches images through the Brave Search API and returns titles, source pages, thumbnails and original image URLs, with a SafeSearch filter and up to 200 results.

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Brave Image Search

skills CLI

$ npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills --skill images-search -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install brave/brave-search-skills images-search --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/images-search .claude/skills/images-search && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "images-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/images-search into .claude/skills/images-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "images-search", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/images-search

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills --skill images-search -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install brave/brave-search-skills images-search --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/images-search .agents/skills/images-search && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "images-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/images-search into .agents/skills/images-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "images-search", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills --skill images-search -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install brave/brave-search-skills images-search --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/images-search .cursor/skills/images-search && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "images-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/images-search into .cursor/skills/images-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "images-search", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills.git --path skills/images-search

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills --skill images-search -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install brave/brave-search-skills images-search --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/images-search .gemini/skills/images-search && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "images-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/images-search into .gemini/skills/images-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "images-search", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install brave/brave-search-skills images-search

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills --skill images-search -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/images-search .github/skills/images-search && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "images-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/images-search into .github/skills/images-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "images-search", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills --skill images-search -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install brave/brave-search-skills images-search --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/images-search .opencode/skills/images-search && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "images-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/images-search into .opencode/skills/images-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "images-search", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: images-search
GitHub stars: 183
Token cost: ~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length: 395 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 11
Repo updated: Sep 23, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

Searches images through the Brave Search API and returns titles, source pages, thumbnails and original image URLs, with a SafeSearch filter and up to 200 results.

Finding reference images for a topic through a search API
SKILL.md covers Quick Start (cURL), Endpoint, Parameters and Response Format, plus 3 more sections
Calls curl; reaches api.search.brave.com and imgs.search.brave.com; needs API_KEY and BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY
Collecting image titles, source pages and thumbnails for a list of queries

What it does

The Brave Search images endpoint is a GET request to api.search.brave.com/res/v1/images/search that authenticates with an X-Subscription-Token header. It needs a Brave Search API key and a plan that includes Search, and the curl examples read the key from the BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY environment variable.

The q parameter is required and can be up to 400 characters or 50 words. Optional parameters set the country, search language, result count (default 50, up to 200), SafeSearch and spellcheck. SafeSearch accepts only off or strict, with strict as the default, because images have no moderate level. If spellcheck corrects the query, the corrected text comes back in the response.

Each result includes the image title, the page URL where it was found, the source domain, when the page was last crawled, a Brave-proxied thumbnail about 500 pixels wide and the original full-size image URL. A flag also tells you when strict SafeSearch hid relevant results.

When your agent uses it

Finding reference images for a topic through a search API
Collecting image titles, source pages and thumbnails for a list of queries
Writing a script that needs original image URLs filtered by SafeSearch

Example prompts

“Search Brave for mountain landscape images and list the first ten source pages.”
“Fetch the maximum number of image results for vintage typewriter with SafeSearch off.”
“Find images of Lisbon tram stops in Portuguese and give me the thumbnail URLs.”

Requirements

A Brave Search API key in BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY
A Brave Search plan that includes image search
Network access to api.search.brave.com

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 62793e0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- curl
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:
- api.search.brave.com
- imgs.search.brave.com
Also links to:
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:
- API_KEY
- BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Brave Image Search loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 33 tokens; SKILL.md has 395 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~33
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brave/brave-search-skills at commit 62793e0, republished under its MIT licence (© brave). 395 words, ~1,404 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/images-search/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: images-search
description: USE FOR image search. Returns images with title, source URL, thumbnail. Supports SafeSearch filter. Up to 200 results.

Images Search

Requires API Key: Get one at https://api.search.brave.com

Plan: Included in the Search plan. See https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/subscriptions/subscribe

Quick Start (cURL)

Basic Search

bash

curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/images/search?q=mountain+landscape" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}"

With Parameters

bash

curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/images/search" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}" \
  -G \
  --data-urlencode "q=northern lights photography" \
  --data-urlencode "country=US" \
  --data-urlencode "search_lang=en" \
  --data-urlencode "count=20" \
  --data-urlencode "safesearch=strict"

Endpoint

http

GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/images/search

Authentication: X-Subscription-Token: <API_KEY> header

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
`q`	string	Yes	-	Search query (1-400 chars, max 50 words)
`country`	string	No	`US`	Search country (2-letter country code or `ALL`)
`search_lang`	string	No	`en`	2+ char language code
`count`	int	No	50	Results to return (1-200)
`safesearch`	string	No	`strict`	`off` or `strict` (no `moderate` for images)
`spellcheck`	bool	No	true	Auto-correct query; corrected query in `query.altered`

Response Format

json

{
  "type": "images",
  "query": {
    "original": "mountain landscape",
    "altered": null,
    "spellcheck_off": false,
    "show_strict_warning": false
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "type": "image_result",
      "title": "Beautiful Mountain Landscape",
      "url": "https://example.com/mountain-photo",
      "source": "example.com",
      "page_fetched": "2025-09-15T10:30:00Z",
      "thumbnail": {
        "src": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/...",
        "width": 200,
        "height": 150
      },
      "properties": {
        "url": "https://example.com/images/mountain.jpg",
        "placeholder": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/placeholder/...",
        "width": 1920,
        "height": 1080
      },
      "meta_url": {
        "scheme": "https",
        "netloc": "example.com",
        "hostname": "example.com",
        "favicon": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/favicon/...",
        "path": "/mountain-photo"
      },
      "confidence": "high"
    }
  ],
  "extra": {
    "might_be_offensive": false
  }
}

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
`type`	string	Always `"images"`
`query.original`	string	Original query
`query.altered`	string?	Spellchecked query (null if no correction)
`query.spellcheck_off`	bool?	Whether spellcheck was disabled
`query.show_strict_warning`	bool?	True if strict safesearch hid relevant results
`results[]`	array	List of image results
`results[].type`	string	Always `"image_result"`
`results[].title`	string?	Image title
`results[].url`	string?	Page URL where image was found
`results[].source`	string?	Source domain
`results[].page_fetched`	string?	ISO datetime of last page crawl
`results[].thumbnail.src`	string?	Brave-proxied thumbnail URL (~500px width)
`results[].thumbnail.width`	int?	Thumbnail width
`results[].thumbnail.height`	int?	Thumbnail height
`results[].properties.url`	string?	Original full-size image URL
`results[].properties.placeholder`	string?	Low-res placeholder URL (Brave-proxied)
`results[].properties.width`	int?	Original image width (may be null)
`results[].properties.height`	int?	Original image height (may be null)
`results[].meta_url.scheme`	string?	URL protocol scheme
`results[].meta_url.netloc`	string?	Network location
`results[].meta_url.hostname`	string?	Lowercased domain
`results[].meta_url.favicon`	string?	Favicon URL
`results[].meta_url.path`	string?	URL path
`results[].confidence`	string?	Relevance: `low`, `medium`, or `high`
`extra.might_be_offensive`	bool	Whether results may contain offensive content

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Use Cases

Visual content discovery: Build image galleries, mood boards, or visual research tools. Use count=200 for comprehensive coverage. Prefer over web-search when you need image-specific metadata (dimensions, thumbnails).
Content enrichment: Add relevant images to articles or generated content. Use country and search_lang to target your audience's locale.
Safe image retrieval: Default safesearch=strict ensures family-friendly results out of the box. Only two modes (off/strict) — no moderate option, unlike web/video/news search.
High-volume batch retrieval: Up to 200 images per request (vs 20 for web, 50 for videos/news). Ideal for bulk image sourcing or visual analysis pipelines.

Notes

SafeSearch: Defaults to strict for images (stricter than web search)
High volume: Can return up to 200 results per request
Thumbnails: Brave-proxied for user privacy (500px width). Use properties.url for original full-resolution image.
Dimensions: properties.width/height may be missing for some images
Placeholder: properties.placeholder is a low-res URL (not inline base64) useful for progressive loading UX

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/images-search of brave/brave-search-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 62793e0

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Questions about Brave Image Search

What does Brave Image Search do?

Searches images through the Brave Search API and returns titles, source pages, thumbnails and original image URLs, with a SafeSearch filter and up to 200 results. com/res/v1/images/search that authenticates with an X-Subscription-Token header. It needs a Brave Search API key and a plan that includes Search, and the curl examples read the key from the BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY environment variable.

When should I use Brave Image Search?

Brave Image Search fits situations like: finding reference images for a topic through a search API; collecting image titles, source pages and thumbnails for a list of queries; writing a script that needs original image URLs filtered by SafeSearch.

How do I install Brave Image Search in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills --skill images-search -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/images-search in brave/brave-search-skills) into .claude/skills/images-search in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Brave Image Search in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills --skill images-search -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/images-search in brave/brave-search-skills) into .agents/skills/images-search in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Brave Image Search in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills --skill images-search -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/images-search, .gemini/skills/images-search, .github/skills/images-search and .opencode/skills/images-search in your project.

What does Brave Image Search need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Brave Image Search needs the command-line tools its instructions call (curl) and credentials named API_KEY and BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY. Our summary lists: A Brave Search API key in BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY; A Brave Search plan that includes image search; Network access to api.search.brave.com.

Does Brave Image Search access the network?

SKILL.md names 3 domains. In commands or code: api.search.brave.com and imgs.search.brave.com; the agent is likely to contact these when it follows the instructions. As links in the text: api-dashboard.search.brave.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Brave Image Search safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Brave Image Search use?

Brave Image Search is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Brave Image Search use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Brave Image Search?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Brave Image Search: Brave Search (badlogic/pi-skills, 2.6k stars), 9Router Web Search (decolua/9router, 31k stars), Web Search (tmustier/pi-for-excel, 434 stars) and Search Layer (aAAaqwq/AGI-Super-Team, 105 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Brave Image Search?

brave (a GitHub organization) maintains it in brave/brave-search-skills, which has 183 GitHub stars. The repository holds 11 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 23, 2026.

Source: brave/brave-search-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Brave Image Search

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Images Search

Quick Start (cURL)

Basic Search

With Parameters

Endpoint

Parameters

Response Format

Response Fields

Use Cases

Notes

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

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