tavily-usage

tavily-usage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fcakyon/claude-codex-settings. It costs 57 tokens per session (377 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A search and page-extraction skill for Tavily, a web research service. It helps find relevant web pages and retrieve their contents for analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search the web, discover relevant sources, extract content from a known URL, scrape a website, or gather information for research.
Why use it?
It separates finding sources from reading specific pages, making web-based information gathering more structured.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the tavily-tools plugin — 1 skill shipped together

About the project

claude-codex-settings is a collection of configurations and reusable extensions for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and related coding tools. Developers use its skills, commands, hooks, agents, plugins, and MCP servers to shape coding-agent workflows and connect alternative model APIs. The catalogue entries are components of this collection that can be installed into supported coding tools.

fcakyon/claude-codex-settings · 1,125 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fcakyon/claude-codex-settings/tavily-usage
Any agent
npx skills add fcakyon/claude-codex-settings --skill tavily-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fcakyon/claude-codex-settings

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install tavily-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 377 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00057 $0.00377
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00188
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00038

Measured yesterday against content hash 967da6d98228, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tavily-usage 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 yesterday.

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/tavily-tools/skills/tavily-usage/SKILL.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

Tavily Search and Extract

Use Tavily MCP tools for web search and content retrieval operations.

Tool Selection

Tavily Search (mcp__tavily__tavily_search)

Use for:

  • Keyword-based searches across the web
  • Finding relevant pages and content
  • Quick answer gathering
  • Multiple result discovery

Best for: Initial research, finding sources, broad queries

Tavily Extract (mcp__tavily__tavily-extract)

Use for:

  • Getting detailed content from specific URLs
  • Deep analysis of page content
  • Structured data extraction
  • Following up on search results

Best for: In-depth analysis, specific URL content, detailed information

Hook Behavior

tavily_extract_to_advanced.py hook automatically upgrades extract calls to advanced mode for better accuracy when needed.

Integration Pattern

  1. Use mcp__tavily__tavily_search for discovery phase
  2. Analyze results to find relevant URLs
  3. Use mcp__tavily__tavily-extract for detailed content on specific URLs
  4. Process extracted content for user needs

Environment Variables

Tavily MCP requires:

  • TAVILY_API_KEY - API key from Tavily (tvly-...)

Configure in shell before using the plugin.

Cost Considerations

  • Search is cheaper than extract
  • Use search to filter relevant URLs first
  • Only extract URLs that are likely relevant
  • Cache results when possible
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. yesterday First seen · 59 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 967da6d98228

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tavily-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository fcakyon/claude-codex-settings (1,125 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 377 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.

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