aisa-tavily

AI-optimized web search via AIsa's Tavily API proxy. Returns concise, relevant results for AI agents through AIsa's unified API gateway.

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byopenclaw

Complexity: easy

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About this skill

The 'aisa-tavily' skill provides AI agents with robust web search capabilities, leveraging the Tavily API through AIsa's unified API gateway. It's designed to return highly relevant and concise results, eliminating much of the noise typically found in raw search engine outputs, making it ideal for automated processing by AI systems. The skill supports standard web searches, advanced 'deep' searches for comprehensive research, and topic-specific searches like 'news' to retrieve current events. Beyond just searching, this skill also offers a content extraction feature. An AI agent can provide a URL, and the skill will fetch and return the main content of that webpage, stripping away navigation, advertisements, and other extraneous elements. This is invaluable for agents needing to process specific article content without distractions. Users would deploy this skill when their AI agents require reliable, quick access to up-to-date web information or need to parse content from specific URLs. It streamlines the information gathering process for AI workflows, enhancing the agent's ability to act as a researcher, fact-checker, or content generator.

Best use case

This skill is primarily for AI agents that require access to current, relevant information from the web to complete their tasks, such as conducting research, fact-checking statements, or generating content based on recent events. Developers and users of AI agents benefit most by empowering their agents with a high-quality, AI-optimized web information retrieval system, significantly improving the agent's ability to interact with the real-world data.

AI-optimized web search via AIsa's Tavily API proxy. Returns concise, relevant results for AI agents through AIsa's unified API gateway.

Users should expect concise, AI-optimized search results or the clean, primary content of a specified webpage, formatted for easy consumption by an AI agent.

Practical example

Example input

Research the latest advancements in AI ethics and summarize the key challenges. Use deep search for comprehensive results.

Example output

AI ethics advancements include new regulatory frameworks (EU AI Act), explainable AI (XAI) techniques, and efforts to mitigate bias in models. Key challenges involve balancing innovation with safety, ensuring fairness, and achieving transparency in complex AI systems. [Source links provided if available].

When to use this skill

When an AI agent needs to perform a quick, targeted web search for information.
To enable an AI agent to research complex topics using 'deep' search for comprehensive results.
When an AI agent needs to get up-to-date news or current event information.
To extract clean, primary content from a specific URL for analysis or summarization by an agent.

When not to use this skill

When the information required is already available in the agent's internal knowledge base or provided context.
For tasks that do not require external web access or content analysis.
If extensive human-like browsing and interaction with web elements (e.g., filling forms, clicking specific buttons) are required.
When a different, specialized API is explicitly designed for a very narrow, specific data source (e.g., a proprietary database).

Installation

Claude Code / Cursor / Codex

$curl -o ~/.claude/skills/openclaw-aisa-web-search-tavily/SKILL.md --create-dirs "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openclaw/skills/main/skills/aisadocs/openclaw-aisa-web-search-tavily/SKILL.md"

Manual Installation

Download SKILL.md from GitHub
Place it in .claude/skills/openclaw-aisa-web-search-tavily/SKILL.md inside your project
Restart your AI agent — it will auto-discover the skill

How aisa-tavily Compares

Feature / Agent	aisa-tavily	Standard Approach
Platform Support	Not specified	Limited / Varies
Context Awareness	High	Baseline
Installation Complexity	easy	N/A

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this skill do?

AI-optimized web search via AIsa's Tavily API proxy. Returns concise, relevant results for AI agents through AIsa's unified API gateway.

How difficult is it to install?

The installation complexity is rated as easy. You can find the installation instructions above.

Where can I find the source code?

You can find the source code on GitHub using the link provided at the top of the page.

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SKILL.md Source

# AIsa Tavily Search

AI-optimized web search using Tavily API through AIsa's unified gateway. Designed for AI agents - returns clean, relevant content.

## Search

```bash
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "query"
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "query" -n 10
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "query" --deep
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "query" --topic news
```

## Options

- `-n <count>`: Number of results (default: 5, max: 20)
- `--deep`: Use advanced search for deeper research (slower, more comprehensive)
- `--topic <topic>`: Search topic - `general` (default) or `news`
- `--days <n>`: For news topic, limit to last n days

## Extract content from URL

```bash
node {baseDir}/scripts/extract.mjs "https://example.com/article"
```

Notes:
- Needs `AISA_API_KEY` from https://marketplace.aisa.one
- Powered by AIsa's unified API gateway (https://aisa.one)
- Use `--deep` for complex research questions
- Use `--topic news` for current events

Data & Research