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.
npx agentmods add skills/initializ/forge/tavily-searchnpx skills add initializ/forge --skill tavily-searchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/initializ/forgeWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/initializ/forge/tavily-search)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/initializ/forge/tavily-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/initializ/forge/tavily-search.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00014 | $0.00583 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00292 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00117 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00058 |
Grade A, and why
tavily-search 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 4d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
- curl What it actually says
Tavily Web Search Skill
Search the web using the Tavily AI search API, optimized for LLM applications.
Authentication
Set the TAVILY_API_KEY environment variable with your Tavily API key.
Get your key at https://tavily.com
No OAuth or MCP configuration required.
Quick Start
./scripts/tavily-search.sh '{"query": "latest AI news"}'
Tool: tavily_search
Search the web using Tavily AI.
Input:
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | yes | The search query |
| search_depth | string | no | basic (fast) or advanced (thorough). Default: basic |
| max_results | integer | no | Maximum results to return (1-20). Default: 5 |
| time_range | string | no | Filter by time: day, week, month, year |
| include_domains | array | no | Only include results from these domains |
| exclude_domains | array | no | Exclude results from these domains |
Output: JSON object with query, answer, results (array of {title, url, content, score}), and response_time.
Search Depth
| Depth | Speed | Detail | Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| basic | Fast (~1s) | Standard snippets | Quick lookups, fact checks |
| advanced | Slower (~3s) | Detailed content | Research, analysis |
Response Format
{
"query": "your search query",
"answer": "AI-generated summary answer",
"response_time": 0.5,
"results": [
{
"title": "Page Title",
"url": "https://example.com",
"content": "Relevant content snippet...",
"score": 0.95
}
]
}
Tips
- Use
search_depth: advancedfor research tasks that need detailed content - Use
include_domainsto restrict searches to trusted sources - Use
time_range: dayfor breaking news or very recent information - The
answerfield provides a concise AI-generated summary when available
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 90 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A da9274ad8913
tavily-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository initializ/forge (227 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 583 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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web-search-plus
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web-search-plus
Unified search skill with Intelligent Auto-Routing. Uses multi-signal analysis to automatically select between Serper (Google), Tavily (Research), Exa (Neural), Perplexity (AI Answers), You.com (RAG/Real-time), and SearXNG (Privacy/Self-hosted) with confidence scoring.
web-search-plus-zh
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quality-loop
Use this workflow recipe when a draft, plan, proposal, or other deliverable should be independently reviewed and revised until it satisfies explicit quality criteria.