Tavily Search
AI-optimized web search that returns structured, relevant results instead of raw HTML and ad-laden pages.
What This Skill Does
Tavily Search is built specifically for AI agents. Unlike generic web browsing, Tavily returns AI-synthesized answers with source citations, structured content extraction, and relevance-ranked results. It includes five capabilities: tavily_search (fast web search), tavily_extract (pull structured content from URLs), tavily_crawl (crawl websites for data), tavily_map (map site structure), and tavily_research (multi-step research with synthesis). When you ask your agent to research a topic, debug an error, or find current pricing, Tavily returns structured, relevant results that the agent can reason about immediately.
Example workflow
Your research agent searches for competitor pricing updates every Monday morning, extracts structured data from their pricing pages, compares to your current data, and posts a formatted diff to your Notion workspace.
What Your Agent Can Do With Tavily Search
What Access This Skill Requires
Access granted
- Outbound web search (Tavily API only)
- URL content extraction
Explicitly excluded
- No file system access
- No local file access
- No credential access
- No email access
- No calendar access
- No credential storage access
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Trust Level & Platforms
Recommended trust level
You can adjust the trust level up or down at any time.
Compatible platforms
Skills That Pair Well
GitHub
Google Workspace
Slack
n8n Workflow
Tavily Search: Common Questions
What does the Tavily Search skill do in OpenClaw?
Tavily Search gives your OpenClaw agent real-time web search capabilities optimized for AI. Unlike generic search APIs, Tavily returns structured, LLM-ready results with extracted content, reducing hallucination. Your agent can research topics, fact-check claims, monitor news, and pull live data from the web.
Do I need a Tavily API key to use this skill?
Yes. Tavily offers a free tier with 1,000 searches per month, which is enough for most personal agents. Paid plans start at $40/month for higher volume. You add your Tavily API key to BetterClaw and the skill handles the rest.
How does Tavily compare to Brave Search or Google Custom Search for agents?
Tavily is purpose-built for AI agents. It returns pre-extracted, structured content rather than raw HTML links. This means fewer tokens consumed per search, more accurate results, and less hallucination compared to Brave or Google Custom Search which return link lists the agent must then fetch and parse.
Is Tavily Search included with BetterClaw?
The skill installation is included with every BetterClaw agent at $19/month. You bring your own Tavily API key. Tavily's free tier (1,000 searches/month) works for most use cases. The skill is security-audited and runs in a sandboxed environment.
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