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Web search from the command line.

Search the live web and get back text, not a page of links.

Results come back as title, url, date and the readable text of the page, which is what an agent needs and what a person reading a terminal wants too. Searches cost money, so they are the clearest thing on the daily ceiling.

Four commands

Each of the last three opens a browser tab, does one thing, and hands the terminal back. 

curl -sSL https://gbrainio.terminalwire.sh | bash   # install it
gbrainio terminal connect                           # set the terminal up and connect it
gbrainio tool exa open                              # connect the account
gbrainio terminal open                              # turn Web search on for the terminal

The installer is a shell script for macOS and Linux. Read it before you run it.

Every Web search command

This is gbrainio tool exa, run for real. The page and the CLI print from the same code, so the cheatsheet is what the CLI answers to today. 

gbrainio tool exa
Search the web.

USAGE
  gbrainio tool exa <command> [arguments]

COMMANDS
  search  Search the web
  open    Open its page in the browser

LEARN MORE
  gbrainio tool exa <command> -h  What one command takes
  https://gbrain.io/docs/tools    The manual

Same tools, any assistant

Claude Code, Cursor and Codex reach the same Web search through MCP, on the same permission and the same record.

Web search over MCP

How the whole thing fits

One permission, one daily ceiling, one record, across every client that asks.

Tools

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