tavily
Installation
SKILL.md
Tavily Search
Web search and URL content extraction powered by Tavily API. Returns clean, structured results optimized for AI consumption — no HTML noise, no cookie banners, no pagination.
When to Use Tavily vs Other Tools
| Situation | Tool | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Need current information on a topic | search.mjs |
Tavily aggregates and ranks live results |
| Need news from the last N days | search.mjs --topic news --days N |
News mode filters recency |
| Have a specific URL, need full text | extract.mjs |
Extracts clean article content from URL |
| Need documentation for a library | search.mjs --deep |
Deep mode covers docs sites thoroughly |
| Need a static resource already known | direct fetch or read | Skip Tavily if no live lookup needed |
| Need multiple competing perspectives | search.mjs -n 10 |
Increase result count for breadth |
Scripts
Both scripts exist at scripts/ and require TAVILY_API_KEY in the environment.