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 documents, filter results, extract key insights, and retrieve structured data through natural language.

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Tavily offers powerful search and data retrieval from documents, databases, and the web. It helps teams locate and filter information instantly, saving hours on research.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

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

Tavily crawl

Tool to perform intelligent graph-based website crawling with parallel path exploration and content extraction.

Tavily extract

Tool to extract and parse web page content from specified URLs using Tavily's extract endpoint.

Get Tavily usage

Tool to retrieve API key and account usage statistics from Tavily.

Tavily map website

Tool to map a website and discover its pages.

Tavily search

Use this to perform a web search via the Tavily API; offers controls for search depth, content types, result count, and domain filtering.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Tavily MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/openai @ai-sdk/mcp
Install the Composio SDK and Claude Agent SDK
2

Create Tool Router Session

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

const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: 'your-api-key' });

console.log("Creating Tool Router session...");
const { mcp } = await composio.create('your-user-id');
console.log(`Tool Router session created: ${mcp.url}`);
Initialize the Composio client and create a Tool Router session
3

Connect to AI Agent

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

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: {
    type: 'http',
    url: mcp.url,
    headers: { 'x-api-key': 'your-composio-api-key' }
  }
});

const tools = await client.tools();

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-4o'),
  tools,
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Search latest research on AI ethics' }],
  stopWhen: stepCountIs(5)
});

console.log(`Agent: ${text}`);
Use the MCP server with your AI agent
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Tavily API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/openai
Install the Composio SDK
2

Initialize Composio and Create Tool Router Session

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

const composio = new Composio({
  provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider(),
});
const openai = new OpenAI({});
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
Import and initialize Composio client, then create a Tool Router session
3

Execute Tavily Tools via Tool Router with Your Agent

typescript
const tools = session.tools;
const response = await openai.responses.create({
  model: 'gpt-4.1',
  tools: tools,
  input: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'Search recent news about electric vehicles in Europe'
  }],
});
const result = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(
  'your-user-id',
  response.output
);
console.log(result);
Get tools from Tool Router session and execute Tavily actions with your Agent

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Tavily Integration

  • Supports both Tavily MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for searching, filtering, and retrieving your Tavily data

Managed Auth

  • Built-in API key management with secure storage and rotation
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Tavily access
  • Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Tavily
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Tavily resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Tavily requires you to configure your own API key credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling 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.

Create the key in your Tavily account settings, then paste it once on Composio's connection page. Composio stores it encrypted and uses it only for the Tavily actions your agent runs. Nobody else in your workspace can read it, and you can revoke it inside Tavily at any time.

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.

The connection stops working the moment Tavily rejects the old key. Create a new key in Tavily and reconnect the account from the Composio dashboard or by asking your agent to reconnect Tavily. Nothing else changes.

Composio's free 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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