1. Visit [Brave Search API](https://brave.com/search/api/) 2. Sign up for an account 3. Navigate to your dashboard 4. Generate a new API key 5. Copy
your_token_here in the configuration above. The mcp resources mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it rather than through you.@upstash/context7-mcp on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
You will need 2 environment variables: BRAVE_API_KEY, GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by austynrowat; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
{
"mcpServers": {
"brave-search": {
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"-e",
"BRAVE_API_KEY",
"mcp/brave-search"
],
"env": {
"BRAVE_API_KEY": "your_token_here"
}
},
"github": {
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN", "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server"],
"env": {
"GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_token_here"
}
},
"context7": {
"autoApprove": [],
"disabled": false,
"timeout": 60,
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "context7-mcp"],
"transportType": "stdio"
},
"serena": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["--from", "git+https://github.com/oraios/serena", "serena-mcp-server.exe"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| BRAVE_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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