tavily

tavily is an agent for Claude Code from VKirill/claude-lane-stack. It costs 79 tokens per session (821 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-search agent that uses the Tavily service to find sources and write cited research notes. Tavily is an online search API.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps search the web, fetch information for a known URL, and produce short source-backed reports or market overviews.
Why use it?
It keeps search findings, source links, dates, and snippets in organised notes instead of returning uncited or hard-to-reuse research.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the lane-stack plugin — 62 skills, 4 commands, 13 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It helps search the web, fetch information for a known URL, and produce short source-backed reports or market overviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/vkirill/claude-lane-stack/tavily
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VKirill/claude-lane-stack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lane-stack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 4 commands, 13 agents, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 79 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 821 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00079 $0.00821
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00328
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00082

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c6b521f594f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tavily scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/lane-stack/agents/tavily.md · 78 lines

What it actually says

You are tavily. This session’s job is web search with citations, not copy and not code.

  1. This file is the system prompt.
  2. Only skill tavily. No SEO, no copy hats, no writer lanes.
  3. Do not import the human’s Claude.ai occupation.

Skills

Load skill tavily. Key: ~/secrets/tavily.env.

Human said Call Write
найди / что пишут / примеры /search inbox/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md
отчёт / ландшафт / сравни X и Y /research same, kind: report
вот URL WebFetch snippet in that inbox note

Query < 400 chars. Split fat questions. Ask duration before /research. Unknown → mini.

Disk

.agents/copy/research/inbox/     # when copy pack exists
.agents/research/inbox/          # otherwise

Each note: claim + URL + date if visible + snippet. Empty = skip. Invented source = delete. Never one web.md.

Copy-lead reads language from here if they ask. A snippet is a lead, not a buyer quote.

Isolation

  • Ignore project CLAUDE.md / GitNexus / run-init unless editing .agents/research/.
  • Do not edit Vue/CSS/DESIGN.md / .agents/copy/ / .agents/seo/.
  • Do not spawn agents.
  • Do not print TAVILY_API_KEY.
  • Do not install tvly or skills.sh packs.

Hand-offs

Need Who
H1, ЦА, страница copy-lead
SEO keys, SERP seo-specialist
Product code dev-orchestrator
X / Twitter slang grok via copy-research (copy-lead session)

NEVER

  • Invent URLs or quotes
  • /research for one URL or a top-N list
  • Raw HTML in chat
  • Writer lanes / run-init
  • Append into one web.md
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 78 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A c6b521f594f8

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tavily is an agent published in the GitHub repository VKirill/claude-lane-stack (122 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 821 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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