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Tavily AI Search

by bert-builder · GitHub ↗ · v1.0.0
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Install in OpenClaw
/install tavily
Description
AI-optimized web search using Tavily Search API. Use when you need comprehensive web research, current events lookup, domain-specific search, or AI-generated answer summaries. Tavily is optimized for LLM consumption with clean structured results, answer generation, and raw content extraction. Best for research tasks, news queries, fact-checking, and gathering authoritative sources.
Usage Guidance
Install only if you are comfortable sending search queries to Tavily under your API key. Prefer TAVILY_API_KEY or a secure config store, avoid putting keys directly on shared command lines, pin or review tavily-python before use in sensitive environments, and treat search results or curled pages as untrusted until verified.
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill Name: tavily Version: 1.0.0 The skill bundle provides a Python script for interacting with the Tavily search API, which appears benign and correctly handles API keys. However, the `SKILL.md` documentation includes an 'Integration Patterns' example demonstrating how to chain the search results with `jq` and `curl` to fetch raw content from URLs (`scripts/tavily_search.py "React documentation" --json | jq -r '.results[].url' | xargs -I {} curl -s {}`). While presented as a legitimate content extraction method, this example highlights the agent's capability to execute arbitrary network requests (`curl`) based on search results, which is a high-risk primitive that could be exploited by a malicious prompt to access or exfiltrate data from unintended external or internal network resources. This capability, though not explicitly malicious in its stated purpose, makes the skill suspicious due to the potential for misuse via prompt injection.
Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
The SKILL.md, reference doc, and Python script consistently implement Tavily search, domain filtering, AI answers, images, and optional raw content retrieval.
Instruction Scope
The instructions are user-directed and non-destructive, but they include a shell pipeline that curls search-result URLs; that is purpose-aligned content extraction, though users should avoid blindly fetching untrusted results.
Install Mechanism
The skill has no automatic installer and tells users to manually install the unpinned tavily-python package, so dependency provenance and versioning remain the user's responsibility.
Credentials
A Tavily API key is expected and documented, and the script reads only --api-key or TAVILY_API_KEY; the frontmatter does not formally declare the required credential.
Persistence & Privilege
The artifacts show no background workers, persistence, privilege escalation, protected-path writes, local credential-store access, deletion, or destructive behavior.
How to Use
  1. Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
  2. Run the install command in chat: /install tavily
  3. After installation, invoke the skill by name or use /tavily
  4. Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.0.0
Initial release: AI-optimized web search with basic/advanced modes, domain filtering, news search, image search, and AI answer generation.
Metadata
Slug tavily
Version 1.0.0
License
All-time Installs 1761
Active Installs 617
Total Versions 1
Frequently Asked Questions

What is Tavily AI Search?

AI-optimized web search using Tavily Search API. Use when you need comprehensive web research, current events lookup, domain-specific search, or AI-generated answer summaries. Tavily is optimized for LLM consumption with clean structured results, answer generation, and raw content extraction. Best for research tasks, news queries, fact-checking, and gathering authoritative sources. It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 42403 downloads so far.

How do I install Tavily AI Search?

Run "/install tavily" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.

Is Tavily AI Search free?

Yes, Tavily AI Search is completely free (open-source). You can download, install and use it at no cost.

Which platforms does Tavily AI Search support?

Tavily AI Search is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).

Who created Tavily AI Search?

It is built and maintained by bert-builder (@bert-builder); the current version is v1.0.0.

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