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Tavily AI Search & Fact-Verification Extraction MCP Server
Purpose-built search and extraction MCP server for AI agents: run real-time fact verification, domain-scoped searches, and clean page content extraction.
⚡ 1-Click Agent & Developer Install
Zero Auth · Ready for Grok Bot, Claude Code & Cursorclaude mcp add tavily -- npx -y tavily-mcp@latest
Copy-Paste System Prompt / Routine Blueprint:
Connect to the Tavily AI Search & Fact-Verification Extraction MCP Server (tavily-mcp) MCP server using `claude mcp add tavily -- npx -y tavily-mcp@latest`. First run a read-only discovery check invoking `tavily_search` to verify connectivity and credentials, then summarize the structured response and ask before executing any state-modifying tool calls.
Synthesized Engineering Blueprint & Setup Guide
### Server Architecture & Capability Summary
**Tavily AI Search & Fact-Verification Extraction MCP Server** (`tavily-mcp`) is a verified **STDIO** Model Context Protocol (MCP) server curated with **@swyx** for Grok Bot, Claude Code, and Cursor.
Purpose-built search and extraction MCP server for AI agents: run real-time fact verification, domain-scoped searches, and clean page content extraction.
### 1-Click CLI Installation
Run the command below to register `tavily-mcp` in Claude Code or your MCP client:
```bash
claude mcp add tavily -- npx -y tavily-mcp@latest
```
### Standard `mcpServers` JSON Configuration (`.cursor/mcp.json` / `claude_desktop_config.json`)
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"tavily-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"tavily-mcp@latest"
],
"env": {
"TAVILY_API_KEY": "tvly-your_api_key"
}
}
}
}
```
### Exposed MCP Tools
- `tavily_search` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `tavily-mcp`.
- `tavily_extract` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `tavily-mcp`.
- `tavily_news_search` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `tavily-mcp`.
### Authentication & Environment Variables
- **Transport Protocol:** `stdio`
- **Auth Mechanism:** `api_key`
- `TAVILY_API_KEY`: `tvly-your_api_key`
- **Documentation / Source:** [https://github.com/tavily-ai/tavily-mcp](https://github.com/tavily-ai/tavily-mcp)
Tags: #tavily-mcp#stdio#research#mcp-server#tavily-search#tavily-extract
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