Brave
Shanone’s Brave integration gives your agent 6 tools for Brave Search — web, news, image, and video search, autocomplete suggestions, and a combined web+news query, all backed by Brave’s independent, privacy-focused index.Getting Started
1
Get a Brave Search API key
Sign up at api.search.brave.com and generate an API key.
2
Connect in Shanone
Ask your agent to search the web with Brave, or add the API key proactively from Integrations in the Shanone dashboard.
3
Retry your request
Once the key is stored,
shanone_execute_tool calls for brave_* tools will succeed.Available Tools
Shanone provides 6 tools for Brave:Web search
Web search
brave_web_search, brave_search — brave_search additionally returns combined web and news results in a single callNews, image & video search
News, image & video search
brave_news_search, brave_image_search, brave_video_searchAutocomplete
Autocomplete
brave_suggestCommon Use Cases
Current events research
Search recent news with a freshness filter to summarize what’s happened this week
Visual reference gathering
Pull relevant images for a topic to include in a document or presentation
Query expansion
Use
brave_suggest to explore related queries before committing to a full searchRegional search
Search with a specific
country code to get results relevant to a particular marketTroubleshooting
Any brave_* call fails with an authentication error
Any brave_* call fails with an authentication error
The connected API key is missing, invalid, or expired. Check and re-enter it under Integrations in the Shanone dashboard.
brave_web_search returns a rate limit error
brave_web_search returns a rate limit error
Brave’s free plan is limited to 2,000 requests/month. Space out requests or upgrade the connected plan if you’re hitting this regularly.
freshness filter (pd/pw/pm/py) doesn't seem to narrow results
freshness filter (pd/pw/pm/py) doesn't seem to narrow results
Freshness filters bias ranking toward recent content but don’t strictly exclude older results for every query — combine with specific date terms in the query itself for stricter recency.