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tavily — Agent Skill

by tavily-ai · Updated

Build AI applications with real-time web data using Tavily's search, extract, crawl, and research APIs.

At a glance

tavily is an Agent Skill by tavily-ai in the Data & Analysis category. In Claude Code it installs with `/plugin install tavily@claude-plugins-official` after adding the anthropics/claude-plugins-official marketplace; other assistants use its SKILL.md instructions as rules. Its source repository has 491 GitHub stars (as of Oct 28, 2026).

Source 491GitHub stars

How to install tavily in your AI client

Setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Cline and VS Code — copy-paste ready.

How to install tavily in Claude CodeAnthropic's agentic CLI

  1. Add the marketplace

    claude
    /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official

  2. Install the skill

    claude
    /plugin install tavily@claude-plugins-official

  3. Use it

    These are slash commands for a Claude Code session, not your shell. Claude auto-invokes the skill when your request matches its description — or type its slash command if it exposes one.

Documentation

Full README

Tavily Agent Skills

Web search, content extraction, site crawling, URL discovery, and deep research — powered by the Tavily CLI.

Installation

Recommended: guided CLI setup

Install the Tavily CLI:

bash
curl -fsSL https://cli.tavily.com/install.sh | bash

On a fresh interactive desktop install, the installer starts tvly init automatically. Otherwise run it after installation:

bash
tvly init

# Prefer to open the sign-in link yourself
tvly init --no-browser

tvly init authenticates, detects Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, installs these skills, and verifies a live search. It reuses an existing credential and is safe to rerun. Skills installed this way are pinned to the CLI release, so run tvly update before tvly init when refreshing them.

tvly search and tvly extract also work without authentication, subject to a keyless rate-limit cap. Use tvly init --skip-auth to keep keyless mode while installing the skills. map, crawl, and research require authentication.

Browser-based OAuth is the preferred interactive sign-in method. --no-browser simply prints the sign-in link instead of opening it automatically; the flow still returns to a localhost callback on the machine running tvly. In remote sessions, make sure that callback is reachable (SSH may require port forwarding). For unattended agents or CI, authenticate beforehand or provide TAVILY_API_KEY securely so the process does not wait for human input.

Manual skill installation

For other agents, or when you only want to install the skills:

bash
npx skills add https://github.com/tavily-ai/skills

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