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@sdillen/pi-brave-search

v0.1.3

Published

pi extension: web search via the Brave LLM Context API

Readme

@sdillen/pi-brave-search

A pi extension that adds a web search tool backed by the Brave "LLM Context" API. Results are pre-extracted, LLM-optimized snippets (text, tables, code) with source and date, so no scraping is needed.

Install

pi install npm:@sdillen/pi-brave-search

Try it for a single run:

pi -e npm:@sdillen/pi-brave-search

API key

Lookup order:

  1. macOS Keychain (service pi-brave-search)
  2. BRAVE_API_KEY environment variable
  3. ~/.config/brave/api-key

Get a key at https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com. The key never leaves your machine and is never written to the LLM context.

Slash commands:

  • /brave-key status|set|delete: set reads the clipboard.
  • /brave-test: checks the key and the endpoint.

If the key is missing on a call, pi asks whether to store the clipboard contents in the Keychain.

Robustness

Rate limiting (429) and 5xx responses are retried with backoff, up to 3 times. The timeout is 30 s. If a result exceeds the token budget, it is truncated and the full output is written to a temp file, whose path is included in the result.

Full architecture notes and the development setup are in the repository README.

License

MIT