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brave-search

Web search and content extraction via Brave Search API. Use for searching documentation, facts, or any web content. Lightweight, no browser required.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

71%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A lean, highly actionable reference with copy-paste commands, documented flags, and a clear output contract. Its main defects are the missing bundle scripts referenced throughout, and the absence of any setup verification or error-recovery guidance.

Suggestions

Ship the referenced bundle files (`search.js`, `content.js`, `package.json`) or correct the paths — every usage example depends on files absent from the bundle.

Add a one-line setup verification step (e.g., a minimal `search.js "test"` run to confirm the API key and install work) plus a note on common failures like invalid/missing `BRAVE_API_KEY`.

Drop or compress the 'When to Use' section, which duplicates the frontmatter description, to remove the remaining redundancy.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and command-focused: numbered setup, concrete invocations, a compact options list, and an output-format sample — no explanations of concepts Claude already knows. Minor trimming is possible (the 'When to Use' section largely repeats the frontmatter description, and 'no browser required' appears in both), which fits the 'efficient; minor instances that could be trimmed' anchor rather than the every-token-earns-its-place level-5 anchor.

4 / 5

Actionability

Commands are concrete and copy-paste ready with defaults and limits documented (e.g., `{baseDir}/search.js "query" -n 10 --content`, `max 20`, freshness formats), and setup gives exact steps including the env-var export. It falls short of fully executable because the referenced bundle files (`search.js`, `content.js`, and the `package.json` implied by `npm install`) are not present in the bundle listing, leaving a gap between the written commands and a runnable skill.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The setup is a clearly numbered sequence (account → subscription → API key → env var → npm install) and usage is unambiguous; as a read-only search skill the destructive/batch validation cap does not apply. It sits at level 4 rather than 5 because there are no checkpoints or error-recovery guidance for the setup (e.g., verifying the key works, what to do on a 401/422), and at 4 rather than 3 because the sequence is fully explicit with only these minor validation gaps.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Section structure is sensible (Setup / Search / Options / Extract / Output Format) and the content is appropriately inline for a simple skill. However, scoring against the actual bundle structure: the body's core referenced paths (`{baseDir}/search.js`, `{baseDir}/content.js`, and the package.json implied by `npm install`) do not exist in the bundle, so its references do not resolve — a structural gap that keeps it below the level-4 'references mostly clear' anchor while the organized sections keep it above level 2.

3 / 5

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Description

70%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A solid description with a clear what, an explicit 'Use for' trigger clause, and good natural keywords. Its main weaknesses are limited enumeration of concrete capabilities and a somewhat generic trigger clause.

Suggestions

Enumerate more concrete capabilities in the description (e.g., date-range/freshness filtering, country filtering, extracting a specific URL's content as markdown) to raise specificity from 1-2 actions to several.

Sharpen the 'when' clause with concrete trigger phrases (e.g., 'Use when the user asks to search the web, look up current information, or extract a page's content') instead of the broad 'any web content'.

Include natural synonyms users would actually say (e.g., 'look up online', 'fetch this URL') to improve trigger term coverage.

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Specificity

The description names the domain and exactly two concrete actions — "Web search and content extraction via Brave Search API" — which matches the anchor for naming domain plus 1-2 concrete actions. It does not list several specific actions (e.g., freshness/date filtering, country filtering, fetching a specific URL), so it falls short of the level-4 anchor.

3 / 5

Completeness

Both parts are present: a clear "what" ("Web search and content extraction via Brave Search API") and an explicit "when" ("Use for searching documentation, facts, or any web content"). The trigger clause is present but generic — "any web content" lacks the concrete trigger phrases of the level-5 example, so it fits the level-4 anchor (both present, 'when' could be more specific) rather than clearly matching the missing-'when' level-3 anchor.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural phrases users would say are present: "web search", "searching documentation, facts, or any web content". A few common natural terms are missing (e.g., "look up", "find online", "fetch this URL"), matching the good-but-not-comprehensive coverage anchor rather than the level-5 synonym/extension-complete anchor.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"via Brave Search API" and "no browser required" give it a clear niche distinct from interactive-browsing skills. The broad "any web content" claim creates minor overlap risk with general fetch/scrape-type skills, so it fits 'mostly distinct; minor overlap risk' rather than the minimal-conflict level-5 anchor.

4 / 5

Total

15

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository

hefgi/dotfiles

Path

.agents/skills/brave-search/SKILL.md

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