| name | tavily |
| description | Tavily is an AI-powered web intelligence platform providing search, content extraction, site crawling, URL mapping, and deep research. Use this skill to understand what Tavily can do and which sub-skill to load for a given web task. |
| metadata | {"dependent_skills":["tavily-cli","tavily-search","tavily-extract","tavily-map","tavily-crawl","tavily-research","tavily-dynamic-search"],"tags":["tavily","web-search","research","extraction"]} |
Tavily
Tavily is an AI-powered web intelligence platform that provides LLM-optimized web search, content extraction, site crawling, URL discovery, and deep research with citations. It goes beyond native agent capabilities by returning structured, machine-readable results from the live web.
Sub-skill Selection Guide
Use this escalation pattern — start simple, escalate when needed:
| Sub-skill | Command | When to Use |
|---|
tavily-search | tvly search | No specific URL; find pages or answer questions |
tavily-extract | tvly extract | Have a URL; pull its full content |
tavily-map | tvly map | Large site; discover which URLs exist before extracting |
tavily-crawl | tvly crawl | Need bulk content from an entire site section |
tavily-research | tvly research | Need comprehensive, multi-source analysis with citations |
tavily-dynamic-search | tvly dynamic-search | Advanced search with dynamic filtering or real-time results |
tavily-cli | tvly | Full CLI reference; use when you need the complete command overview |
When NOT to Use
Do not trigger for local file operations, git commands, deployments, or code editing tasks.
Setup
Requires the Tavily CLI (curl -fsSL https://cli.tavily.com/install.sh | bash) and a Tavily API key from tavily.com.