A skill for current web research using Tavily, a web-search and page-extraction service. It chooses between searching, extracting pages, crawling linked pages, mapping a site's structure, or producing structured research.

Use it to search for current information, extract content from supplied URLs, crawl or map websites, and return research in a requested structure.

Different web tasks need different ways of collecting information. This skill provides a defined route for finding sources, reading URLs, exploring sites, or assembling research results.

tavily-web — Skill for Claude Code by BenedictKing

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.

Any agent

npx skills add BenedictKing/benedictking-skills --skill tavily-web

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BenedictKing/benedictking-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install benedictking-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/benedictking/benedictking-skills/tavily-web/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/benedictking/benedictking-skills/tavily-web)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/benedictking/benedictking-skills/tavily-web"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/benedictking/benedictking-skills/tavily-web/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/benedictking/benedictking-skills/tavily-web"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/benedictking/benedictking-skills/tavily-web.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,224 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00034	$0.01224
Opus 5	$0.00017	$0.00612
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00245
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00122

Measured 12d ago against content hash 030d3e002220, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tavily-web scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/tavily-api.cjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

## Payload Examples (Based on Provided curl)

skills/tavily-web/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tavily Web Skill

Trigger Conditions & Endpoint Selection

Choose Tavily endpoint based on user intent:

search: Need to "search web / latest info / find sources / find links"
extract: Given URL(s), need to extract/summarize content
crawl: Need to traverse site following instructions and scrape page content
map: Need to discover site page list/structure (without full content or metadata only)
research: Need structured research output following given output_schema

Recommended Architecture (Main Skill + Sub-skill)

This skill uses a two-phase architecture:

Main skill (current context): Understand user question → Choose endpoint → Assemble JSON payload
Sub-skill (fork context): Only responsible for HTTP call execution, avoiding conversation history token waste

Execution Method

Use Task tool to invoke tavily-fetcher sub-skill, passing command and JSON (stdin):

Task parameters:
- subagent_type: Bash
- description: "Call Tavily API"
- prompt: cat <<'JSON' | node scripts/tavily-api.cjs <search|extract|crawl|map|research>
  { ...payload... }
  JSON

Payload Examples (Based on Provided curl)

1) Search the web

cat <<'JSON' | node scripts/tavily-api.cjs search
{
  "query": "who is Leo Messi?",
  "auto_parameters": false,
  "topic": "general",
  "search_depth": "basic",
  "chunks_per_source": 3,
  "max_results": 1,
  "time_range": null,
  "start_date": "2025-02-09",
  "end_date": "2025-12-29",
  "include_answer": false,
  "include_raw_content": false,
  "include_images": false,
  "include_image_descriptions": false,
  "include_favicon": false,
  "include_domains": [],
  "exclude_domains": [],
  "country": null,
  "include_usage": false
}
JSON

2) Extract webpages

cat <<'JSON' | node scripts/tavily-api.cjs extract
{
  "urls": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence",
  "query": "<string>",
  "chunks_per_source": 3,
  "extract_depth": "basic",
  "include_images": false,
  "include_favicon": false,
  "format": "markdown",
  "timeout": "None",
  "include_usage": false
}
JSON

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

12d ago First seen · 186 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 030d3e002220

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tavily-web is a skill published in the GitHub repository BenedictKing/benedictking-skills (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,224 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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tavily-web

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Makes network callslowCapability

How it starts

Tavily Web Skill

Trigger Conditions & Endpoint Selection

Recommended Architecture (Main Skill + Sub-skill)

Execution Method

Payload Examples (Based on Provided curl)

1) Search the web

2) Extract webpages

What ships with it

What this file has done since we first saw it

Other skills, from other repositories

My Skill

task-generation

implementation-standards

spec-authoring

quality-assurance

writing-quality