tavily-search

tavily-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from UnicomAI/wanwu. It costs 64 tokens per session (395 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A web-search skill that uses the Tavily service to find a small set of relevant online results and, when available, a short answer summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search the web, return result titles, URLs, and snippets, or request a concise answer alongside the results.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a way to look up current information and receive source links instead of relying only on remembered knowledge.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to search the web, return result titles, URLs, and snippets, or request a concise answer alongside the results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unicomai/wanwu/openclaw-tavily-search
About the project

Wanwu is an enterprise platform for building AI agents, workflows, retrieval-augmented applications, and managing models in multi-tenant environments. It is designed for developers and enterprise teams delivering AI applications and integrations. The catalogue entries provide skills and agents for using the platform.

UnicomAI/wanwu · 2,462 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.

Any agent
npx skills add UnicomAI/wanwu --skill openclaw-tavily-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UnicomAI/wanwu

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 395 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 $0.00064 $0.00395
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00040

Measured 7d ago against content hash 490da2ad7c92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/tavily_search.py), 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

configs/microservice/bff-service/configs/agent-skills/clawhub/openclaw-tavily-search/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Use the bundled script to search the web with Tavily.

Requirements

  • Provide API key via either:
    • environment variable: TAVILY_API_KEY, or
    • ~/.openclaw/.env line: TAVILY_API_KEY=...

Commands

Run from the OpenClaw workspace:

# raw JSON (default)
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/tavily_search.py --query "..." --max-results 5

# include short answer (if available)
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/tavily_search.py --query "..." --max-results 5 --include-answer

# stable schema (closer to web_search): {query, results:[{title,url,snippet}], answer?}
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/tavily_search.py --query "..." --max-results 5 --format brave

# human-readable Markdown list
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/tavily_search.py --query "..." --max-results 5 --format md

Output

raw (default)

  • JSON: query, optional answer, results: [{title,url,content}]

brave

  • JSON: query, optional answer, results: [{title,url,snippet}]

md

  • A compact Markdown list with title/url/snippet.

Notes

  • Keep max-results small by default (3–5) to reduce token/reading load.
  • Prefer returning URLs + snippets; fetch full pages only when needed.
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.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 49 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 490da2ad7c92

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tavily-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnicomAI/wanwu (2,462 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 395 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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