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tavily-ai·vlatest·other·MIT

This Research skill swiftly gathers information on any topic, providing concise answers and boosting your knowledge exploration efforts.

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Installs under a different name. Its SKILL.md names it tavily-research, not the name it is listed under, so the command below uses that name.
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    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add tavily-ai/skills --skill tavily-research -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

tavily-ai

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned tavily-ai/skills at 778122e5f9.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
778122e5f9
Manifest
skills/tavily-research/SKILL.md
Scanned
1 file, 99 lines
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About this skill

What it does

The research skill enables AI agents to gather and analyze information from a wide range of sources, providing accurate and up-to-date insights. It supports deep dives into topics by retrieving relevant data, summarizing findings, and identifying key trends or patterns.

When to use it

  • To investigate complex topics that require cross-referencing multiple sources.
  • When preparing reports or presentations that need factual accuracy and comprehensive coverage.
  • For staying updated on industry trends, market changes, or emerging technologies.
  • When verifying the credibility of information from a single source by comparing with others.

Key capabilities

  • Access to diverse data sources for in-depth research.
  • Summarization of large volumes of text into concise insights.
  • Identification of relevant and credible information.
  • Extraction of key trends, patterns, or anomalies within datasets.

Example prompts

  • "Find recent studies on the impact of AI in healthcare."
  • "Compare the latest market reports on renewable energy adoption."
  • "Summarize the key findings from this research paper."

Tips & gotchas

  • Ensure that your query is specific enough to guide the agent toward relevant sources.
  • Be aware that access to certain databases or sources may be limited depending on the configuration of the AI agent.