tavily Plugin
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Tavily is a plugin that connects AI agents to real-time web data through search, extract, crawl, map, and research capabilities, delivered via a set of Agent Skills that use the Tavily CLI (tvly). According to the GitHub README, the skills are installable with npx skills add for tools like Claude Code and Cursor, and require the separate tavily-cli package plus a Tavily API key for authentication. The Tavily homepage describes Tavily itself as a single API for real-time web access aimed at grounding models with fresh web context and returning structured, chunked content to reduce hallucination. The homepage also states Tavily is used by 2M+ developers, handles 300M+ monthly requests with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and reports 180ms p50 latency on its /search endpoint. Security features mentioned on the homepage include blocking PII leakage, prompt injection, and malicious sources.
Overview
According to the homepage, Tavily is a secure API platform that gives AI agents real-time web access through search, extract, crawl, and research endpoints, with built-in security, privacy, and content validation layers.
What you can do with tavily
- tavily-search: Search the web with LLM-optimized results, with domain filtering, time ranges, and multiple search depths (per README)
- tavily-extract: Extract clean markdown/text content from specific URLs, including JS-rendered pages (per README)
- tavily-crawl: Crawl websites and extract content from multiple pages, saving results as local markdown files (per README)
- tavily-map: Discover all URLs on a website without extracting content, described as faster than crawling (per README)
- tavily-research: Run comprehensive AI-powered research with citations and multi-source synthesis in 30-120 seconds (per README)
- tavily-cli and tavily-best-practices skills provide workflow guidance, install/auth instructions, and reference docs for production integrations (per README)
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Original description (English)
Build AI applications with real-time web data using Tavily's search, extract, crawl, and research APIs.
History of tavily
- Plugin Added tavily