Tavily MCP server for AI agents and assistants

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Tavily MCP or direct API to search the live web, extract page content, crawl sites, and summarize research through natural language.

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Tavily MCP is an AI-powered search API for real-time web search, extraction, and crawling. It gives AI agents fresh, structured web data without messy scraping work.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Tavily MCP action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Tavily crawl

Crawl a website starting from a URL.

Tavily extract

Extract content from URLs.

Tavily map

Map a website's structure.

Tavily research

Perform comprehensive research on a given topic or question.

Tavily search

Search the web for current information on any topic.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Tavily MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/mcp @ai-sdk/openai
Install the Composio SDK and your agent framework
2

Create a session with MCP enabled

typescript
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";

const composio = new Composio();
const { mcp } = await composio.create("your-user-id", {
  toolkits: ["tavily_mcp"],
  mcp: true,
});
Create a session scoped to Tavily MCP and read its MCP URL and headers
3

Connect your agent to the MCP server

typescript
import { createMCPClient } from "@ai-sdk/mcp";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from "ai";

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: { type: "http", url: mcp.url, headers: mcp.headers },
});

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai("gpt-5.6-sol"),
  tools: await client.tools(),
  prompt: "Search the web for the latest AI agent benchmark news and summarize the key findings with sources",
  stopWhen: stepCountIs(10),
});

console.log(text);
await client.close();
Pass the session's MCP URL and headers to your agent and run a Tavily MCP request
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Tavily MCP API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core @composio/openai openai
Install the Composio SDK, the OpenAI provider, and the OpenAI SDK
2

Create a Composio session

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from "@composio/openai";

const composio = new Composio({ provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider() });
const client = new OpenAI();

const session = await composio.create("your-user-id", { toolkits: ["tavily_mcp"] });
const tools = await session.tools();
Initialize Composio with the OpenAI Responses provider and create a session scoped to Tavily MCP
3

Run Tavily MCP tools with your agent

typescript
let response = await client.responses.create({
  model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
  tools,
  input: [{ role: "user", content: "Search the web for the latest AI agent benchmark news and summarize the key findings with sources" }],
});

while (response.output.some((o) => o.type === "function_call")) {
  const outputs = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(session, response.output);
  response = await client.responses.create({
    model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
    tools,
    previous_response_id: response.id,
    input: outputs,
  });
}

console.log(response.output_text);
Send a request, execute the Tavily MCP tool calls through the session, and print the final answer

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Tavily MCP Integration

  • Supports both Tavily MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable search, extract, and crawl actions
  • Rich coverage for real-time web research, source extraction, and site crawling workflows

Managed Auth

  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Tavily MCP access
  • Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys
  • Secure credential handling, so your agents can search the web without exposing secrets

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned for AI agents that need fresh search results, clean extracted content, and crawl-ready data
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know which Tavily MCP action ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Tavily MCP
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Tavily MCP search and extraction capabilities
  • Full audit trail of agent research actions to support review and compliance
FRAMEWORKS

Use Tavily MCP with any AI Agent Framework

Choose a Framework you want to connect Tavily MCP with

Rolling this out across your team?

Give your team centralized access control across every framework with Composio’s MCP Gateway.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Tavily MCP requires you to configure your own DCR OAuth credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and management for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Yes. Composio is SOC 2 Type II compliant and is built to keep your Tavily connection and credentials secure. OAuth tokens and API keys are encrypted, and sensitive customer data is protected at rest and in transit.

Composio also undergoes independent security testing and continuously monitors its systems for security threats. You can review the latest reports and policies in the Composio Trust Center.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

When you connect a Tavily account through Composio, every action runs under that account, so anything the agent creates, sends, or changes shows up in Tavily as done by you. Keep an approval step in your prompt for actions with side effects, such as sending or deleting, and have the agent draft first.

Whatever the credentials you connect allow inside Tavily. If Tavily lets you scope a key to specific permissions, create a scoped one so the agent can only do what you intend. You can revoke the key inside Tavily at any time.

Yes. Composio supports multiple connected accounts for the same app, and that works in Claude, ChatGPT, or any other assistant you connect through Composio. Give each Tavily connection a name such as work or personal, and the assistant uses the one you mention in the request. Each account keeps its own credentials and nothing is merged.

Composio's free Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month with no credit card, which covers most personal Tavily use. Paid plans add higher limits and team features. Your Tavily plan and its API limits still apply as usual.

Built-in connectors usually give one AI access to a limited set of apps. Many people use Composio because it lets their AI connect to more apps than it normally supports, or connect to multiple accounts for the same app (e.g. connect Claude to multiple Tavily accounts).

With Composio, you connect Tavily once and then use it across different AI assistants without setting it up separately in each one. Connect your apps to Composio once, then connect Composio to whichever AI you use, whether that's Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, or your own custom assistant.

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