Tavily Agent Skills

Web search, content extraction, site crawling, URL discovery, and deep research — powered by the Tavily CLI.

Installation

Install skills

# Agent skills (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)
npx skills add https://github.com/tavily-ai/skills

Install the Tavily CLI

The skills require the Tavily CLI (tvly) to be installed:

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

Or install manually:

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

Authenticate

tvly login --api-key tvly-YOUR_KEY
# or: tvly login                      (opens browser for OAuth)
# or: export TAVILY_API_KEY=tvly-...

Get an API key at tavily.com.

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-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:

1. Search — Find pages on a topic (tvly search "query" --json)
2. Extract — Get content from a specific URL (tvly extract "https://..." --json)
3. Map — Discover URLs on a site (tvly map "https://..." --json)
4. Crawl — Bulk extract from a site section (tvly crawl "https://..." --output-dir ./docs/)
5. Research — Deep multi-source analysis (tvly research "topic" --model pro)