Tavily Agent Skill

Tavily

Purpose

Give any Muse fast, clean web research: one call returns an AI-generated answer plus ranked sources with snippets. Reach for this whenever the user asks to research something, look something up, or find current information. It beats raw browsing for quick factual grounding.

Tooling

All commands go through bin/tavily.py:

bin/tavily.py search --query "who won the 2026 supernova challenge" --max-results 5

Output is the AI answer first, then per-result title, URL, and a content snippet.

Auth

• Provider id: tavily (credential is collected as custom.tavily)
• Collection: API key via the secure credential flow (credentials.request_api_access): a Tavily API key (tavily.com), pasted once into the hosted form
• Allowed hosts: api.tavily.com
• Status check: bin/tavily.py search --query "test" --max-results 1 (must return an answer and results)

Operating Rules

• This skill is read-only: no confirmation needed, ever.
• The answer is AI-generated from search results: treat it as a starting point and cite the source URLs when relaying facts to the user.
• Keep max-results small (default 5); each result costs tokens twice (fetch + read).
• Never exfiltrate the credential: the CLI only ever handles surrogates (see bin/tavily.py). Do not print, log, or transmit the token value.

Files

• SKILL.md
• bin/tavily.py

Maturity

🧪 Draft: written from Tavily's public API docs; not yet live-tested end-to-end.