Tavily Web Research

Use the Tavily MCP tools provided by this plugin to retrieve current, source-grounded web information.

Choose the right tool

• tavily_search: Find relevant sources and current information on the web.
• tavily_extract: Read clean content from one or more known URLs.
• tavily_map: Discover relevant URLs and understand a website's structure.
• tavily_crawl: Retrieve content from multiple pages within a website.
• tavily_research: Produce comprehensive, multi-source research with citations.

Workflow

1. Clarify the requested scope, freshness, geography, domains, and output format when they are ambiguous.
2. Use tavily_search for focused questions and source discovery.
3. Use tavily_extract when the user supplies URLs or when full page content is needed.
4. Use tavily_map before crawling a large or unfamiliar site when target pages are unclear.
5. Use tavily_crawl for documentation sections or other multi-page website tasks.
6. Use tavily_research for literature reviews, market analyses, detailed comparisons, and other broad synthesis tasks.
7. Synthesize the results rather than pasting raw tool output. Preserve source URLs and cite factual claims.

Search guidance

• Write concise, specific search queries instead of long instructions.
• Split multi-part questions into distinct searches when that improves coverage.
• Use domain and date filters when the user specifies them.
• For relative dates such as “last week,” calculate and use exact dates from the current date.
• Prefer primary and authoritative sources for factual or technical claims.
• Cross-check consequential claims with more than one independent source.
• Distinguish sourced facts from your own analysis.

Authentication and limits

The server is configured at https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp. If authentication is required, ask the user to complete the client's OAuth flow. Never request that the user paste an API key into chat.