Tavily Web Search
AI-optimized web search via Tavily API. Returns concise, relevant results for AI agents.
Details
Tavily Web Search provides AI-optimized web search via the Tavily API. It returns concise, relevant results tailored for AI agents and was a top weekly gainer in download growth.
When to use
Use when the agent needs up-to-date web results (news, docs, facts). Requires Tavily API key; good for research and Q&A that goes beyond static knowledge.
How Tavily Web Search fits into your OpenClaw setup
Development skills are the workhorses of an OpenClaw setup. They give your assistant the ability to participate in real engineering work — reading and writing code, running tooling, and reporting back in the channel where you already collaborate. Tavily Web Search belongs to this group, and like most development skills it pays off fastest when it is wired into the projects you touch every day rather than installed and forgotten. At 8,142+ downloads, the ClawHub community has given it a meaningful vote of confidence.
A typical session
A typical session starts in chat: you describe what you need in plain language, and the assistant works out that Tavily Web Search is the right tool for the job. It runs the work, watches the output, and replies with the result or a follow-up question. Because the conversation happens in Discord, Telegram, or whichever channel you have connected, the full history of what was asked and what was done stays searchable alongside the rest of your team's discussion.
Installing Tavily Web Search
Setup takes a few minutes. Open a terminal in your OpenClaw directory, run the command below, and restart the assistant so it picks up the new capability. Check the skill's README before first use — if it needs an API key or account access, you want that configured up front.
Then test it. Ask the assistant for something small that exercises the new skill end to end. Skills fail in two ways — not registered, or registered but misconfigured — and a quick first request tells you immediately which situation you are in, if either.
clawhub install tavily-web-searchGetting the most out of it
No skill does its best work alone. The assistant routinely chains Tavily Web Search with other installed capabilities — gathering context with one skill, acting with another, reporting with a third — without being asked to. That is why it pays to choose skills as a toolkit rather than one at a time: each addition makes the others more capable.
And if you would rather not assemble this yourself, we do it for a living: OpenClaw installation, a skill set chosen and configured around how you work — including Tavily Web Search where it fits — and custom skills built where the catalogue stops short.