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Tavily MCP server

Search and extract built for agents. The Tavily MCP server provides search and content extraction tuned for LLM agents, returning concise, relevant results to ground answers.

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tavily-ai/tavily-mcp
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In the official MCP registryio.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcpupdated 2026-01-26

Installing Tavily

Runs on demand via npx. Nothing to install globally.

Claude Code
claude mcp add tavily -- npx -y tavily-mcp
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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tavily": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tavily-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "<your TAVILY_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Not sure where the config file lives, or it isn't picking the server up? Config paths for every client.

Requires TAVILY_API_KEY, get this from the maintainer. Never commit them.

What it does

The Tavily MCP server provides search and content extraction tuned for LLM agents, returning concise, relevant results to ground answers.

Like any MCP server, Tavily plugs into MCP-compatible assistants (such as Claude and other clients) so the model can use it as a tool , no custom integration code required.

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