Tavily AI Search

What this skill does

AI-optimized web search using Tavily Search API. Use when you need comprehensive web research, current events lookup, domain-specific search, or AI-generated answer summaries. Tavily is optimized for LLM consumption with clean structured results, answer generation, and raw content extraction. Best for research tasks, news queries, fact-checking, and gathering authoritative sources.

Tavily AI Search is part of the Research & Knowledge category — research and knowledge skills that gather, search, and summarize information. You can install it on its own or alongside other research & knowledge skills from the OpenClaw catalog.

How to install Tavily AI Search

The easiest path is via the OpenClaw Easy desktop app — one click, no terminal required:

1. Download OpenClaw Easy for macOS or Windows (free, one-click installer, ~30 seconds).
2. Open the in-app Skills panel.
3. Search for tavily and click Install.
4. The skill activates automatically when an incoming message matches its description.

Install from the command line

If you already run the OpenClaw CLI, add Tavily AI Search with a single command:

openclaw skills add tavily

This pulls tavily from ClawHub and installs it into ~/.openclaw/skills/tavily/. Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so the new skill is discovered.

How to use Tavily AI Search

Once installed, Tavily AI Search activates on its own: when an incoming message on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Feishu or Line matches the skill's description, your OpenClaw agent loads it and runs the workflow. You can also trigger it explicitly by describing the task in chat. No extra configuration is required after install.

Manual install (advanced)

If you prefer manual installation:

1. Click the Download .zip button above to grab tavily-1.0.0.zip directly from our S3 mirror.
2. Unzip into ~/.openclaw/skills/tavily/ (create the directory if it does not exist).
3. Restart OpenClaw Easy (or the OpenClaw CLI gateway) so the new skill is discovered.

Frequently asked questions

How do I install Tavily AI Search?

Install Tavily AI Search in the OpenClaw Easy desktop app by opening the Skills panel, searching for tavily, and clicking Install. From a terminal you can run: openclaw skills add tavily. Either way the skill is placed in ~/.openclaw/skills/tavily/.

Is Tavily AI Search free?

Yes. Tavily AI Search is free and open-source, distributed under the Apache-2.0 license through ClawHub. No account or payment is required to download or run it.

What does Tavily AI Search do?

AI-optimized web search using Tavily Search API.

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