Tavily

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:

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:

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:

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

Install the CLI separately if needed:

uv tool install tavily-cli   # or: pip install tavily-cli

Then use tvly init --skip-skills for guided authentication and verification, or tvly login when you only need to authenticate.

Keep the CLI current

tvly update --check
tvly update

Available Skills

Skill	Description
tavily-search	Search the web with LLM-optimized results. Supports domain filtering, time ranges, and multiple search depths.
tavily-extract	Extract clean markdown/text content from specific URLs. Handles JS-rendered pages.
tavily-crawl	Crawl websites and extract content from multiple pages. Save as local markdown files.
tavily-map	Discover all URLs on a website without extracting content. Faster than crawling.
tavily-research	Comprehensive AI-powered research with citations. Multi-source synthesis in 30-120s.
tavily-dynamic-search	Filter and deduplicate large search or extraction results without flooding agent context.
tavily-cli	Overview skill with workflow guide, install/auth instructions.
tavily-best-practices	Reference docs for building production-ready Tavily integrations.