tavily-cli — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited tavily-cli (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
Findings & checks · 0 flagged
Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
Web search, content extraction, site crawling, URL discovery, and deep research. Returns JSON optimized for LLM consumption.
Run tvly --help or tvly <command> --help for full option details.
Must be installed and authenticated. Check with tvly --status.
tavily v0.1.0
> Authenticated via OAuth (tvly login)If not ready:
curl -fsSL https://cli.tavily.com/install.sh | bashOr manually: uv tool install tavily-cli / pip install tavily-cli
Then authenticate:
tvly login --api-key tvly-YOUR_KEY
# or: export TAVILY_API_KEY=tvly-YOUR_KEY
# or: tvly login (opens browser for OAuth)Follow this escalation pattern — start simple, escalate when needed:
| Need | Command | When |
|---|---|---|
| Find pages on a topic | tvly search | No specific URL yet |
| Get a page's content | tvly extract | Have a URL |
| Find URLs within a site | tvly map | Need to locate a specific subpage |
| Bulk extract a site section | tvly crawl | Need many pages (e.g., all /docs/) |
| Deep research with citations | tvly research | Need multi-source synthesis |
For detailed command reference, use the individual skill for each command (e.g., tavily-search, tavily-crawl) or run tvly <command> --help.
All commands support --json for structured, machine-readable output and -o to save to a file.
tvly search "react hooks" --json -o results.json
tvly extract "https://example.com/docs" -o docs.md
tvly crawl "https://docs.example.com" --output-dir ./docs/? and & as special characters.echo "query" | tvly search -~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.