tavily
Web search, content extraction, site crawling, URL discovery, and deep research — powered by the Tavily CLI.
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Auto-invoked ships a router so the right skill fires automatically as you prompt. No remembering which skill to call.
Normal is the plain upstream plugin, installed as-is. You invoke its skills yourself.
The plugin> /plugin marketplace add tavily-ai/skills> /plugin install tavily@tavily-pluginsAuto-invocation> /plugin marketplace add flowy-sh/flowy-core> /plugin install flowy-core> /plugin install flowy-tavily
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Repo: tavily-ai/skills
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Skill(8 skills)
/tavily-best-practicesBuild production-ready Tavily integrations with best practices baked in. Reference documentation for developers using coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) to implement web search, content extraction, crawling, and research in agentic workflows, RAG systems, or/tavily-cliSet up, authenticate, update, troubleshoot, or choose between Tavily CLI web commands. Use when the user asks about the Tavily CLI, installing Tavily skills, first-time setup, authentication, keyless limits, CLI updates, or which Tavily command to use. For an ordinary web task,/tavily-crawlCrawl websites and extract content from multiple pages via the Tavily CLI. Use this skill when the user wants to crawl a site, download documentation, extract an entire docs section, bulk-extract pages, save a site as local markdown files, or says "crawl", "get all the pages",
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:
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. |
Workflow
Start simple, escalate when needed:
- Search — Find pages on a topic (
tvly search "query" --json) - Extract — Get content from a specific URL (
tvly extract "https://..." --json) - Map — Discover URLs on a site (
tvly map "https://..." --json) - Crawl — Bulk extract from a site section (
tvly crawl "https://..." --output-dir ./docs/) - Research — Deep multi-source analysis (
tvly research "topic" --model pro)
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FAQ
tavily is a Claude Code plugin of 8 hand-picked skills with a FLOW.md router. Install it once and the right skill fires as you prompt, with no slash command to remember. It is built for research work. It includes tavily-best-practices, tavily-cli, tavily-crawl. Free and open source.
- What is tavily?
- Web search, content extraction, site crawling, URL discovery, and deep research — powered by the Tavily CLI.
- How do I install tavily?
- Run these in Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add tavily-ai/skills then /plugin install tavily@tavily-plugins. Then prompt normally.
- Does tavily auto-invoke its skills?
- Yes. It ships a FLOW.md router that Flowy's hook fires, so the matching skill runs as you prompt. You never name a skill.
- Is tavily free?
- Yes. Flowy is free and open source, with nothing gated. You can read every skill in full before you install.
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