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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 this only if you are comfortable sending search queries and selected options to Tavily under your API key. Avoid using it with secrets, private internal documents, regulated data, or sensitive personal information, and treat search results or URLs fetched with curl as untrusted content. Pin or review the tavily-python dependency in stricter environments.
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 documentation, reference file, and Python script consistently implement Tavily search, answer summaries, domain filters, images, news mode, and optional raw content retrieval.
Instruction Scope
The routing language is broad for research and fact-finding, and examples include curling result URLs; these are purpose-aligned but users should avoid sending sensitive prompts or blindly fetching untrusted URLs.
Install Mechanism
There is no automatic installer; the skill instructs users to install the unpinned tavily-python package manually, so dependency review or pinning is left to the user.
Credentials
A Tavily API key is expected and disclosed; the script reads only an explicit --api-key value or TAVILY_API_KEY and sends search parameters to Tavily.
Persistence & Privilege
The artifacts show no persistence, background worker, privilege escalation, destructive file operations, local indexing, or credential-store harvesting.
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 0
Active Installs 0
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 46920 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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