Tavily

This gives Claude direct access to Tavily's search API when you need live web data or LLM-friendly extraction. You get four main endpoints: search for queries with optional AI-generated answers, extract for pulling content from specific URLs, map for discovering site structure, and crawl for traversing and extracting in one pass. There's also a research mode that does multi-step investigation with citations, though that's async and takes longer. The skill defaults to conservative settings like basic search depth and five results, which is smart since you can always dial it up. Honestly most useful when you need structured web data with sources rather than just raw HTML scraping.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill tavily --agent claude-code

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Tavily

Purpose

Provide a curl-based interface to Tavily’s REST API for web search, extraction, mapping, crawling, and optional research. Return structured results suitable for LLM workflows and multi-step investigations.

When to Use

Use when a task needs live web information, site extraction, mapping, or crawling.
Use when web searches are needed and no built-in tool is available, or when Tavily’s LLM-friendly output (summaries, chunks, sources, citations) is beneficial.
Use when a task requires structured search results, extraction, or site discovery from Tavily.

Required Environment

Require TAVILY_API_KEY in the environment.
If TAVILY_API_KEY is missing, prompt the user to provide the API key before proceeding.

Base URL and Auth

Base URL: https://api.tavily.com
Authentication: Authorization: Bearer $TAVILY_API_KEY
Content type: Content-Type: application/json
Optional project tracking: add X-Project-ID: <project-id> if project attribution is needed.