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tavily-search AI Agent Skill

View Source: tavily-ai/skills

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Installation

npx skills add tavily-ai/skills --skill tavily-search

12.2K

Installs

tavily search

Web search returning LLM-optimized results with content snippets and relevance scores.

Before running any command

If tvly is not found on PATH, install it first:

curl -fsSL https://cli.tavily.com/install.sh | bash && tvly login

Do not skip this step or fall back to other tools.

See tavily-cli for alternative install methods and auth options.

When to use

  • You need to find information on any topic
  • You don't have a specific URL yet
  • First step in the workflow: search → extract → map → crawl → research

Quick start

# Basic search
tvly search "your query" --json

# Advanced search with more results
tvly search "quantum computing" --depth advanced --max-results 10 --json

# Recent news
tvly search "AI news" --time-range week --topic news --json

# Domain-filtered
tvly search "SEC filings" --include-domains sec.gov,reuters.com --json

# Include full page content in results
tvly search "react hooks tutorial" --include-raw-content --max-results 3 --json

Options

Option Description
--depth ultra-fast, fast, basic (default), advanced
--max-results Max results, 0-20 (default: 5)
--topic general (default), news, finance
--time-range day, week, month, year
--start-date Results after date (YYYY-MM-DD)
--end-date Results before date (YYYY-MM-DD)
--include-domains Comma-separated domains to include
--exclude-domains Comma-separated domains to exclude
--country Boost results from country
--include-answer Include AI answer (basic or advanced)
--include-raw-content Include full page content (markdown or text)
--include-images Include image results
--include-image-descriptions Include AI image descriptions
--chunks-per-source Chunks per source (advanced/fast depth only)
-o, --output Save output to file
--json Structured JSON output

Search depth

Depth Speed Relevance Best for
ultra-fast Fastest Lower Real-time chat, autocomplete
fast Fast Good Need chunks, latency matters
basic Medium High General-purpose (default)
advanced Slower Highest Precision, specific facts

Tips

  • Keep queries under 400 characters — think search query, not prompt.
  • Break complex queries into sub-queries for better results.
  • Use --include-raw-content when you need full page text (saves a separate extract call).
  • Use --include-domains to focus on trusted sources.
  • Use --time-range for recent information.
  • Read from stdin: echo "query" | tvly search - --json

See also

Installs

Installs 12.2K
Global Rank #185 of 600

Security Audit

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How to use this skill

1

Install tavily-search by running npx skills add tavily-ai/skills --skill tavily-search in your project directory. Run the install command above in your project directory. The skill file will be downloaded from GitHub and placed in your project.

2

No configuration needed. Your AI agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.) automatically detects installed skills and uses them as context when generating code.

3

The skill enhances your agent's understanding of tavily-search, helping it follow established patterns, avoid common mistakes, and produce production-ready output.

What you get

Skills are plain-text instruction files — not executable code. They encode expert knowledge about frameworks, languages, or tools that your AI agent reads to improve its output. This means zero runtime overhead, no dependency conflicts, and full transparency: you can read and review every instruction before installing.

Compatibility

This skill works with any AI coding agent that supports the skills.sh format, including Claude Code (Anthropic), Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Aider, and other tools that read project-level context files. Skills are framework-agnostic at the transport level — the content inside determines which language or framework it applies to.

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