tavily

tavily is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davidtoby/agent-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (335 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of tavily, MIT.

A command-line web-search tool built for AI agents. It searches the web, can focus on recent news, and can extract the contents of a given URL.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps search general topics or news, limit news by age, run deeper searches, and extract text from web pages.
Why use it?
It provides concise search results and page content for research tasks without requiring an agent to handle every web page directly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps search general topics or news, limit news by age, run deeper searches, and extract text from web pages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davidtoby/agent-skills/tavily-search
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 davidtoby/agent-skills --skill tavily-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidtoby/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Your own site
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 335 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00023 $0.00335
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00168
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00034

Measured 12d ago against content hash c1c4f168eb62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/extract.mjs, scripts/search.mjs), 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to tavily — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/.archive/umbrella-curation-2026-04-29/openclaw-imports/tavily-search/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

AI-optimized web search using Tavily API. Designed for AI agents - returns clean, relevant content.

node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "query"
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "query" -n 10
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "query" --deep
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "query" --topic news

Options

  • -n <count>: Number of results (default: 5, max: 20)
  • --deep: Use advanced search for deeper research (slower, more comprehensive)
  • --topic <topic>: Search topic - general (default) or news
  • --days <n>: For news topic, limit to last n days

Extract content from URL

node {baseDir}/scripts/extract.mjs "https://example.com/article"

Notes:

  • Needs TAVILY_API_KEY from https://tavily.com
  • Tavily is optimized for AI - returns clean, relevant snippets
  • Use --deep for complex research questions
  • Use --topic news for current events
Files

What ships with it

4 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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 39 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A c1c4f168eb62

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tavily is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidtoby/agent-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 335 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to tavily, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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