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Brave Search MCP Server

v0.2.0 · by Zed Industries · added 3 November 2026

Model Context Protocol Server for Brave Search

MCP servers

How to install

With Forge Super installed, the button above opens the app on this extension, where you press Install. Nothing is installed until you do.

You can also open the Extensions panel in the app and search for Brave Search MCP Server. The extension's id is mcp-server-brave-search.

Don't have Forge Super yet? Download it here.

README

From the extension's repository, written by its authors and not by Mentenaz. See the source.

mcp-server-brave-search

Zed extension that wraps the official Brave Search MCP server: @brave/brave-search-mcp-server. See the upstream project for features and usage details: brave/brave-search-mcp-server.

Configuration

This MCP server requires an API key.

  1. Sign up for a Brave Search API account
  2. Choose a plan (Free tier available with 2,000 queries/month)
  3. Generate your API key from the developer dashboard

In your Zed settings:

{
    "context_servers": {
        "mcp-server-brave-search": {
          "settings": {
              "brave_api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
          }
        }
    }
}