Agent skill

News Search

A skill your agent uses FOR news search. An agent skill from brave/brave-search-skills.

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install News Search

skills CLI

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

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install brave/brave-search-skills news-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/news-search .claude/skills/news-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 "news-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/news-search into .claude/skills/news-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "news-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/news-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 news-search -a codex

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install brave/brave-search-skills news-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/news-search .agents/skills/news-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 "news-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/news-search into .agents/skills/news-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "news-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 news-search -a cursor

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install brave/brave-search-skills news-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/news-search .cursor/skills/news-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 "news-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/news-search into .cursor/skills/news-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "news-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/news-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 news-search -a gemini-cli

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install brave/brave-search-skills news-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/news-search .gemini/skills/news-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 "news-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/news-search into .gemini/skills/news-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "news-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 news-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 news-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/news-search .github/skills/news-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 "news-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/news-search into .github/skills/news-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "news-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 news-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 news-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/news-search .opencode/skills/news-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 "news-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills/tree/main/skills/news-search into .opencode/skills/news-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "news-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: news-search
GitHub stars: 183
Token cost: ~2k tokens
SKILL.md length: 592 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 11
Repo updated: Sep 23, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses FOR news search. An agent skill from brave/brave-search-skills.

Productivity & Automation work in your project
SKILL.md covers Quick Start (cURL), Endpoint, Parameters and Response Format, plus 5 more sections
Calls curl; reaches api.search.brave.com and imgs.search.brave.com; needs BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY and API_KEY

What it does

News Search is an agent skill from brave/brave-search-skills. USE FOR news search. Returns news articles with title, URL, description, age, thumbnail, profile. Supports freshness and date range filtering, SafeSearch filter and Goggles for custom ranking.

Its SKILL.md is about 2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation. It works with Brave Search API. The repository describes itself as: Official skills for using Brave Search API with AI coding agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

Productivity & Automation work in your project

Example prompts

“/news-search”

Requirements

A credential in BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY
A credential in API_KEY

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
- raw.githubusercontent.com
Also links to:
- search.brave.com
- api-dashboard.search.brave.com
- github.com
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:
- BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY
- API_KEY
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

News Search loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 51 tokens; SKILL.md has 592 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~51
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~2k

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). 592 words, ~2,029 tokens.

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

name: news-search
description: USE FOR news search. Returns news articles with title, URL, description, age, thumbnail, profile. Supports freshness and date range filtering, SafeSearch filter and Goggles for custom ranking.

News 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/news/search?q=space+exploration" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}"

Recent News (Past 24 Hours)

bash

curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/news/search" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}" \
  -G \
  --data-urlencode "q=cybersecurity" \
  --data-urlencode "country=US" \
  --data-urlencode "freshness=pd" \
  --data-urlencode "count=20"

Date Range Filter

bash

curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/news/search" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}" \
  -G \
  --data-urlencode "q=climate summit" \
  --data-urlencode "freshness=2026-01-01to2026-01-31"

Endpoint

http

GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/news/search
POST https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/news/search

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

Note: Both GET and POST are supported. POST is useful for long queries or complex Goggles.

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`	Language preference (2+ char language code)
`ui_lang`	string	No	`en-US`	UI language (e.g., "en-US")
`count`	int	No	`20`	Number of results (1-50)
`offset`	int	No	`0`	Page offset (0-9)
`safesearch`	string	No	`strict`	Adult content filter (`off`/`moderate`/`strict`)
`freshness`	string	No	-	Time filter (`pd`/`pw`/`pm`/`py` or date range)
`spellcheck`	bool	No	`true`	Auto-correct query
`extra_snippets`	bool	No	-	Up to 5 additional excerpts per result
`goggles`	string or array	No	-	Custom ranking filter (URL or inline; repeat param for multiple)
`operators`	bool	No	`true`	Apply search operators
`include_fetch_metadata`	bool	No	`false`	Include fetch timestamps in results

Freshness Values

Value	Description
`pd`	Past day (24 hours) - ideal for breaking news
`pw`	Past week (7 days)
`pm`	Past month (31 days)
`py`	Past year (365 days)
`YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD`	Custom date range

Response Format

json

{
  "type": "news",
  "query": {
    "original": "space exploration"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "type": "news_result",
      "title": "New Developments in Space Exploration",
      "url": "https://news.example.com/space-exploration",
      "description": "Recent missions have advanced our understanding of...",
      "age": "2 hours ago",
      "page_age": "2026-01-15T14:30:00",
      "page_fetched": "2026-01-15T15:00:00Z",
      "meta_url": {
        "scheme": "https",
        "netloc": "news.example.com",
        "hostname": "news.example.com",
        "favicon": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/favicon/news.example.com",
        "path": "/space-exploration"
      },
      "profile": {
        "name": "Example Outlet",
        "url": "https://news.example.com/space-exploration"
      },
      "thumbnail": {
        "src": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/..."
      }
    }
  ]
}

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
`type`	string	Always `"news"`
`query.original`	string	The original search query
`query.altered`	string?	Spellcheck-corrected query (if changed)
`query.cleaned`	string?	Cleaned/normalized query from spellchecker
`query.spellcheck_off`	bool?	Whether spellcheck was disabled
`query.show_strict_warning`	bool?	True if strict safesearch blocked results
`query.search_operators`	object?	Applied search operators
`query.search_operators.applied`	bool	Whether operators were applied
`query.search_operators.cleaned_query`	string?	Query after operator processing
`query.search_operators.sites`	list[str]?	Domains from `site:` operators
`results[].type`	string	Always `"news_result"`
`results[].title`	string	Article title
`results[].url`	string	Source URL of the article
`results[].description`	string?	Article description/summary
`results[].age`	string?	Human-readable age (e.g. "2 hours ago")
`results[].page_age`	string?	Publication date from source (ISO datetime)
`results[].page_fetched`	string?	When page was last fetched (ISO datetime)
`results[].fetched_content_timestamp`	int?	Fetch timestamp (only with `include_fetch_metadata=true`)
`results[].meta_url.scheme`	string?	URL protocol scheme
`results[].meta_url.netloc`	string?	Network location
`results[].meta_url.hostname`	string?	Lowercased domain name
`results[].meta_url.favicon`	string?	Favicon URL
`results[].meta_url.path`	string?	URL path
`results[].thumbnail.src`	string	Served thumbnail URL
`results[].thumbnail.original`	string?	Original thumbnail URL
`results[].extra_snippets`	list[str]?	Up to 5 additional excerpts per result
`results[].profile.name`	string?	Name of the site
`results[].profile.url`	string?	The original URL where the profile is available
`results[].profile.long_name`	string?	The long name of the site
`results[].profile.img`	string?	The served image URL representing the profile

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Goggles (Custom Ranking) — Unique to Brave

Goggles let you re-rank news results — boost trusted outlets or suppress unwanted sources.

Method	Example
Hosted	`--data-urlencode "goggles=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brave/goggles-quickstart/main/goggles/hacker_news.goggle"`
Inline	`--data-urlencode 'goggles=$discard\n$site=example.com'`

Hosted goggles must be on GitHub/GitLab, include ! name:, ! description:, ! author: headers, and be registered at https://search.brave.com/goggles/create. Inline rules need no registration.

Syntax: Rules start with $ + comma-separated options. Actions (pick one): discard, boost[=N], downrank[=N] — N is an integer 1–10. Site filter: site=DOMAIN. Example: $site=example.com,boost=3. Separate rules with \n (%0A).

Allow list: $discard\n$site=docs.python.org\n$site=developer.mozilla.org — Block list: $discard,site=pinterest.com\n$discard,site=quora.com

Resources: Discover · Syntax · Quickstart

Search Operators

Use search operators to refine results:

site:local-paper.com - Limit to specific news site
"exact phrase" - Match exact phrase
-exclude - Exclude term

Set operators=false to disable operator parsing.

Use Cases

Breaking news monitoring: Use freshness=pd for the most recent articles on a topic.
Custom news feeds with Goggles: Boost trusted sources and discard other sources — unique to Brave.
Historical news research: Use freshness=YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD to find articles from specific time periods.
Multilingual news: Combine country, search_lang, and ui_lang for cross-locale results.
Data pipelines: Set include_fetch_metadata=true for fetched_content_timestamp on each result.

Notes

SafeSearch: Defaults to strict
Pagination: Use offset (0-9) with count
Extra snippets: Up to 5 additional excerpts when extra_snippets=true

Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 62793e0

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Questions about News Search

What does News Search do?

A skill your agent uses FOR news search. An agent skill from brave/brave-search-skills. News Search is an agent skill from brave/brave-search-skills. USE FOR news search.

When should I use News Search?

News Search fits situations like: productivity & Automation work in your project.

How do I install News Search in Claude Code?

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

How do I install News Search in Codex?

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

Can I use News 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 news-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/news-search, .gemini/skills/news-search, .github/skills/news-search and .opencode/skills/news-search in your project.

What does News Search need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, News Search needs the command-line tools its instructions call (curl) and credentials named BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY and API_KEY. Our summary lists: A credential in BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY; A credential in API_KEY.

Does News Search access the network?

SKILL.md names 6 domains. In commands or code: api.search.brave.com, imgs.search.brave.com and raw.githubusercontent.com; the agent is likely to contact these when it follows the instructions. As links in the text: search.brave.com, api-dashboard.search.brave.com and github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is News 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 News Search use?

News 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 News Search use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.1k 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 News Search?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with News Search: Brave Search (badlogic/pi-skills, 2.6k stars), Web Search (tmustier/pi-for-excel, 434 stars), Web Search Brave (jwynia/agent-skills, 170 stars) and Brave Search (LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills, 2.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains News 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 News 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

News Search

Quick Start (cURL)

Basic Search

Recent News (Past 24 Hours)

Date Range Filter

Endpoint

Parameters

Freshness Values

Response Format

Response Fields

Goggles (Custom Ranking) — Unique to Brave

Search Operators

Use Cases

Notes

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

More from brave/brave-search-skills

Related

Questions about News Search