tavily_search

tavily_search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericwang915/PythonClaw. It costs 75 tokens per session (571 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-search tool that uses the Tavily service to find current information, articles, data, and summaries online.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps search general topics, news, and finance with basic or advanced search, result limits, and optional time ranges.
Why use it?
It saves time when answers require fresh information or fact checking instead of relying only on existing knowledge.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps search general topics, news, and finance with basic or advanced search, result limits, and optional time ranges.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericwang915/pythonclaw/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.

Any agent
npx skills add ericwang915/PythonClaw --skill tavily
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericwang915/PythonClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 571 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00075 $0.00571
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00228
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00057

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 26307c2b4391, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tavily_search 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.

pythonclaw/templates/skills/web/tavily/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

When to Use

  • Search the web for information
  • Look up current events or news
  • Research a topic with real-time results
  • Check facts or verify claims
  • Find data, articles, or summaries from the internet

When NOT to Use

  • Scraping a specific URL's content — use web_scraper
  • Calling a known API endpoint — use http_request
  • GitHub or code-specific lookups — use github or search

Setup

  1. Get a free API key at app.tavily.com
  2. Add to pythonclaw.json:
    "tavily": { "apiKey": "tvly-..." }
    
  3. Install SDK: pip install tavily-python

Usage/Commands

Use the built-in web_search tool — no script required.

Parameter Type Description Default
query string Search query (be specific) required
search_depth string "basic" (fast) or "advanced" (thorough) "basic"
topic string "general", "news", or "finance" "general"
max_results integer Results count (1–20) 5
time_range string "day", "week", "month", "year" none

Examples:

web_search(query="Python 3.13 new features")
web_search(query="AI industry news", topic="news", time_range="week", max_results=10)
web_search(query="NVIDIA stock analysis 2026", topic="finance", search_depth="advanced")

Notes

  • Be specific in queries (e.g., "Python asyncio best practices 2026" vs "Python async")
  • Use topic="news" for current events, topic="finance" for market data
  • Use time_range when freshness matters
  • Always cite source URLs in your response
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 · 63 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 26307c2b4391

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tavily_search is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericwang915/PythonClaw (45 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 571 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 2026-08-30.