{"slug":"give-your-ai-live-web-search","url":"https://agentics.page/recipes/give-your-ai-live-web-search","title":"Give your AI assistant live web search","problem":"Your assistant answers from training data that is months old. You want it to search the web right now — news, prices, fresh documentation — and answer with sources.","audience":"anyone","skills":[{"slug":"brave-search","url":"https://agentics.page/skills/brave-search","api":"https://agentics.page/api/skills/brave-search"}],"clients":["claude-desktop","claude-code","cursor","vscode"],"timeMinutes":5,"steps":[{"title":"Get a free API key","body":"Sign up at brave.com/search/api and create a key on the free plan — no credit card needed. Copy the key, it looks like a long random string."},{"title":"Install the Brave Search skill","body":"Use the install widget below and replace YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY in the snippet with your real key before saving."},{"title":"Restart and search","body":"Fully restart the app, then paste the prompt below."}],"prompt":"Search the web for the latest news from this week about EU AI regulation. Summarize the three most important developments and give me the source link for each.","expectedResult":"The assistant runs real searches (you'll see the search tool light up), then answers with this week's developments and clickable source links — content that cannot come from training data.","troubleshooting":[{"q":"I get an authentication or 401 error.","a":"The API key wasn't picked up. Make sure you replaced the YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY placeholder in the configuration with your actual key (no quotes missing, no trailing spaces) and restarted the app."},{"q":"Searches work but results seem thin.","a":"The free tier is rate-limited (about one query per second). For heavy research sessions, space out requests or upgrade the plan."},{"q":"The assistant answers without searching.","a":"Ask explicitly: \"Search the web for …\". If it still doesn't, check that the skill shows up in the tools menu — if not, see the Node.js note in the install widget."}],"lastReviewed":"2026-06-10","verified":null}