brave_suggest
Suggest Brave search queries. Returns Brave autosuggest query completions for a query prefix. Locale defaults to country=us and lang=en-us. Suggestions are fetched from public Brave Search suggest JSON and trimmed to the requested count.
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What brave_suggest does on Crawlora
AI agents call brave_suggest to retrieve information from Crawlora without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
q | string | Yes | Search query prefix |
lang | string | — | Brave UI language; defaults to en-us |
count | integer | — | Suggestions to return; defaults to 10, clamped to 1..12 |
country | string | — | Brave result country; defaults to us |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why brave_suggest is rated Low
This tool retrieves and returns search query suggestions from a public API without creating, modifying, executing, or deleting any data. It is a read-only operation with no side effects. The public nature of the data source and informational nature of autosuggestions present minimal security risk.
From the tool's definition Tool returns autosuggest query completions from public Brave Search suggest JSON. Described actions are 'Suggest', 'Returns', and 'fetched from public' data with no modification or side effects.
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The rule that runs brave_suggest safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Crawlora, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For brave_suggest, this is the rule to start with:
brave_suggest is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Crawlora, apply this rule, and every brave_suggest call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about brave_suggest
Suggest Brave search queries. Returns Brave autosuggest query completions for a query prefix. Locale defaults to country=us and lang=en-us. Suggestions are fetched from public Brave Search suggest JSON and trimmed to the requested count. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Crawlora MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
brave_suggest accepts 4 parameters: q, lang, count, country. Required: q. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Crawlora MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for brave_suggest: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Crawlora. Nothing to install.
brave_suggest is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the brave_suggest rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for brave_suggest. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
brave_suggest is provided by the Crawlora MCP server (crawlora-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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