Web Search Skill for Claude
Web search and content extraction with Tavily and Exa via inference.sh CLI. Apps: Tavily Search, Tavily Extract, Exa Search, Exa Answer, Exa Extract. Capabilities: AI-powered search, content extraction, direct answers, research. Use for: research, RAG pipelines, fact-checking, content aggregation, agents. Triggers: web search, tavily, exa, search api, content extraction, research, internet search, ai search, search assistant, web scraping, rag, perplexity alternative
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/aiskillstore/marketplace --skill web-searchWhat comes with it
43 312 bytes besides the instructionWhat it tells the agent to use
found in the instruction textThe instruction itself
16 sections, as written by the author> Install the belt CLI skill: npx skills add belt-sh/cli
Web Search & Extraction
Search the web and extract content via inference.sh CLI.
Quick Start
> Requires inference.sh CLI (belt). Install instructions
belt login
# Search the web
belt app run tavily/search-assistant --input '{"query": "latest AI developments 2024"}'
Available Apps
Tavily
| App | App ID | Description |
|-----|--------|-------------|
| Search Assistant | tavily/search-assistant | AI-powered search with answers |
| Extract | tavily/extract | Extract content from URLs |
Exa
| App | App ID | Description |
|-----|--------|-------------|
| Search | exa/search | Smart web search with AI |
| Answer | exa/answer | Direct factual answers |
| Extract | exa/extract | Extract and analyze web content |
Examples
Tavily Search
belt app run tavily/search-assistant --input '{
"query": "What are the best practices for building AI agents?"
}'
Returns AI-generated answers with sources and images.
Tavily Extract
belt app run tavily/extract --input '{
"urls": ["https://example.com/article1", "https://example.com/article2"]
}'
Extracts clean text and images from multiple URLs.
Exa Search
belt app run exa/search --input '{
"query": "machine learning frameworks comparison"
}'
Returns highly relevant links with context.
Exa Answer
belt app run exa/answer --input '{
"question": "What is the population of Tokyo?"
}'
Returns direct factual answers.
Exa Extract
belt app run exa/extract --input '{
"url": "https://example.com/research-paper"
}'
Extracts and analyzes web page content.
Workflow: Research + LLM
# 1. Search for information
belt app run tavily/search-assistant --input '{
"query": "latest developments in quantum computing"
}' > search_results.json
# 2. Analyze with Claude
belt app run openrouter/claude-sonnet-45 --input '{
"prompt": "Based on this research, summarize the key trends: <search-results>"
}'
Workflow: Extract + Summarize
# 1. Extract content from URL
belt app run tavily/extract --input '{
"urls": ["https://example.com/long-article"]
}' > content.json
# 2. Summarize with LLM
belt app run openrouter/claude-haiku-45 --input '{
"prompt": "Summarize this article in 3 bullet points: <content>"
}'
Use Cases
- Research: Gather information on any topic
- RAG: Retrieval-augmented generation
- Fact-checking: Verify claims with sources
- Content aggregation: Collect data from multiple sources
- Agents: Build research-capable AI agents
Related Skills
# Full platform skill (all apps)
npx skills add inference-sh/skills@infsh-cli
# LLM models (combine with search for RAG)
npx skills add inference-sh/skills@llm-models
# Image generation
npx skills add inference-sh/skills@ai-image-generation
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Documentation
- Adding Tools to Agents - Equip agents with search
- Building a Research Agent - LLM + search integration guide
- Tool Integration Tax - Why pre-built tools matter
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Web search and content extraction with Tavily and Exa via inference.sh CLI. Apps: Tavily Search, Tavily Extract, Exa Search, Exa Answer, Exa Extract. Capabilities: AI-powered search, content extraction, direct answers, research. Use for: research, RAG pipelines, fact-checking, content aggregation, agents. Triggers: web search, tavily, exa, search api, content extraction, research, internet search, ai search, search assistant, web scraping, rag, perplexity alternative
Web search and content extraction with Tavily and Exa via inference.sh CLI. Apps: Tavily Search, Tavily Extract, Exa Search, Exa Answer, Exa Extract. Capabilities: AI-powered search, content extraction, direct answers, research. Use for: research, RAG pipelines, fact-checking, content aggregation, agents. Triggers: web search, tavily, exa, search api, content extraction, research, internet search, ai search, search assistant, web scraping, rag, perplexity alternative
The protocol behind every investigation skill. Use when AI research must proceed without you: search-plan gate, Fact/Inference/Assumption labels, confidence stacking, diffable outputs.
How to use it
Take aiskillstore/web-search from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.
The instructions reference npx.
Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.