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Repo No. 59Tavily AI · Updated 4 September 2026 · In print
Skills Docs · No. 59
Tavily AI
tavily-ai / skills
8 skills published from this repository, read as one issue.
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1 — Install
npx skills add tavily-ai/skills/plugin marketplace add tavily-ai/skillsMIT486 stars2,844 wordsUpdated 4 September 2026
2 — Skills
8 skills · 12 minutes- Tavily Best PracticesBuild production-ready Tavily integrations with best practices baked in.1 min
- Tavily CLISet up, authenticate, update, troubleshoot, or choose between Tavily CLI web commands.2 min
- Tavily CrawlCrawl websites and extract content from multiple pages via the Tavily CLI.2 min
- Tavily Dynamic SearchProgrammatic Tavily search with context isolation.3 min
- Tavily ExtractExtract clean markdown or text content from specific URLs via the Tavily CLI.1 min
Skills Docs · Repo No. 59Whole repo as markdown
Provenance
- Owner
- tavily-ai · Organization
- Licence
- MIT
- Last updated
- Published from
- github.com/
tavily-ai/ skills
Front matter
From the READMETavily Agent Skills
Web search, content extraction, site crawling, URL discovery, and deep research — powered by the Tavily CLI.
Installation
Recommended: guided CLI setup
Install the Tavily CLI (opens in a new tab):
curl -fsSL https://cli.tavily.com/install.sh | bashOn a fresh interactive desktop install, the installer starts tvly init
automatically. Otherwise run it after installation:
tvly init
# Prefer to open the sign-in link yourself
tvly init --no-browsertvly init authenticates, detects Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, installs
these skills, and verifies a live search. It reuses an existing credential and
is safe to rerun. Skills installed this way are pinned to the CLI release, so
run tvly update before tvly init when refreshing them.
tvly search and tvly extract also work without authentication, subject to
a keyless rate-limit cap. Use tvly init --skip-auth to keep keyless mode while
installing the skills. map, crawl, and research require authentication.
Browser-based OAuth is the preferred interactive sign-in method. --no-browser
simply prints the sign-in link instead of opening it automatically; the flow
still returns to a localhost callback on the machine running tvly. In remote
sessions, make sure that callback is reachable (SSH may require port
forwarding). For unattended agents or CI, authenticate beforehand or provide
TAVILY_API_KEY securely so the process does not wait for human input.
Manual skill installation
For other agents, or when you only want to install the skills:
npx skills add https://github.com/tavily-ai/skillsInstall the CLI separately if needed:
uv tool install tavily-cli # or: pip install tavily-cliThen use tvly init --skip-skills for guided authentication and verification,
or tvly login when you only need to authenticate.
Keep the CLI current
tvly update --check
tvly updateAvailable 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-dynamic-search | Filter and deduplicate large search or extraction results without flooding agent context. |
| 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:
- Search — Find pages on a topic (
tvly search "query" --json) - Extract — Get content from a specific URL (
tvly extract "https://..." --json) - Map — Discover URLs on a site (
tvly map "https://..." --json) - Crawl — Bulk extract from a site section (
tvly crawl "https://..." --output-dir ./docs/) - Research — Deep multi-source analysis (
tvly research "topic" --model pro)
Colophon
How this issue was made- Source
- github.com/tavily-ai/skills, branch
main, last pushed 4 September 2026. - Licence
- MIT — the text of every skill is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.
- Discovery
- 8 skills found by walking the repository tree for
SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. One layout observed:skills/*/SKILL.md. - Issue colours
- Resolved from a deterministic hash of the owner name. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.
- Heading repairs
- 1 repair applied to the front matter so the document has one
h1and no skipped levels:- Shifted “7 headings” from h1 to h2 so the skill title is the only h1.
- Spec compliance
- Every skill satisfies the Agent Skills specification’s frontmatter rules.
- Images
- Images inside a skill come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.
- Marketplace
- A plugin manifest is published at
.claude-plugin/marketplace.jsonby Tavily, declaring 1 plugin. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree. - Signal
- Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.
- Agent surfaces
- The whole issue is available as one markdown document at
/tavily-ai/skills.md, and each skill at its own.mdURL. - Publication
- Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.