io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp
NPM · TAVILY-MCP
MCP server for advanced web search using Tavily
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Last scanned (1 hour ago)
Scores higher than 53% of npm servers
Category Search and Retrieval
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security81
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- CVE check failed: a known high-severity CVE affects @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.25.2, a direct dependency. A fixed version is available. View diagnostics → Fail
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 37 of 121 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency45
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 91 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability59
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1017 tokens (~254/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management100
- No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.Pass
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 3 Nov 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 2 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 1 Nov 26 −1
- Stability: pass → 0.93 functional
- 29 Oct 26 0
- CVE-2026-118663 affects this package: high ▼ security
- 28 Oct 26 0
- GHSA-f897-62hf-6gxq affects this package: high ▼ security
- 26 Oct 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 25 Oct 26 0
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 21 Oct 26 0
- CVE-2026-111771 affects this package: high ▼ security
- CVE-2026-111768 affects this package: high ▼ security
- CVE-2026-111769 affects this package: high ▼ security
- CVE-2026-111767 affects this package: high ▼ security
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/tavily-mcp@0.2.15
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Vulnerabilities 8 findings
| ID | CVE | Severity | Vector | Fix available |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-rmxm-3fg6-px4f | CVE-2026-118663 | medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N | yes |
| GHSA-22jm-h49p-29qw | CVE-2026-111767 | high | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L | yes |
| GHSA-345p-7cg4-v4c7 | CVE-2026-25536 | high | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N | yes |
| GHSA-46jr-4wx8-v453 | CVE-2026-111768 | high | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | yes |
| GHSA-6prh-2h8m-c8cw | CVE-2026-111769 | medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N | yes |
| GHSA-6qxp-vccf-f47h | CVE-2026-104850 | high | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | yes |
| GHSA-f897-62hf-6gxq | high | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | yes | |
| GHSA-rvq5-wwqv-78pq | CVE-2026-111771 | medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N | yes |
Background: What a vulnerability scan can and cannot prove →
Dependencies 121 packages
| Packages resolved | 121 |
|---|---|
| Stale | 37 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
tavily_crawl ~290
Crawl a website starting from a URL. Extracts content from pages with configurable depth and breadth.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| allow_external | boolean | – | Whether to return external links in the final response |
| extract_depth | string | – | Advanced extraction retrieves more data, including tables and embedded content, with higher success but may increase latency |
| format | string | – | The format of the extracted web page content. markdown returns content in markdown format. text returns plain text and may increase latency. |
| include_favicon | boolean | – | Whether to include the favicon URL for each result |
| instructions | string | – | Natural language instructions for the crawler. Instructions specify which types of pages the crawler should return. |
| limit | integer | – | Total number of links the crawler will process before stopping |
| max_breadth | integer | – | Max number of links to follow per level of the tree (i.e., per page) |
| max_depth | integer | – | Max depth of the crawl. Defines how far from the base URL the crawler can explore. |
| select_domains | array | – | Regex patterns to restrict crawling to specific domains or subdomains (e.g., ^docs\.example\.com$) |
| select_paths | array | – | Regex patterns to select only URLs with specific path patterns (e.g., /docs/.*, /api/v1.*) |
| url | string | yes | The root URL to begin the crawl |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
tavily_extract ~110
Extract content from URLs. Returns raw page content in markdown or text format.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| extract_depth | string | – | Use 'advanced' for LinkedIn, protected sites, or tables/embedded content |
| format | string | – | Output format |
| include_favicon | boolean | – | Include favicon URLs |
| include_images | boolean | – | Include images from pages |
| query | string | – | Query to rerank content chunks by relevance |
| urls | array | yes | List of URLs to extract content from |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
tavily_map ~201
Map a website's structure. Returns a list of URLs found starting from the base URL.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| allow_external | boolean | – | Whether to return external links in the final response |
| instructions | string | – | Natural language instructions for the crawler |
| limit | integer | – | Total number of links the crawler will process before stopping |
| max_breadth | integer | – | Max number of links to follow per level of the tree (i.e., per page) |
| max_depth | integer | – | Max depth of the mapping. Defines how far from the base URL the crawler can explore |
| select_domains | array | – | Regex patterns to restrict crawling to specific domains or subdomains (e.g., ^docs\.example\.com$) |
| select_paths | array | – | Regex patterns to select only URLs with specific path patterns (e.g., /docs/.*, /api/v1.*) |
| url | string | yes | The root URL to begin the mapping |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
tavily_search ~416
Search the web for current information on any topic. Use for news, facts, or data beyond your knowledge cutoff. Returns snippets and source URLs.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| country | string | – | Boost search results from a specific country. This will prioritize content from the selected country in the search results. Available only if topic is general. |
| end_date | string | – | Will return all results before the specified end date. Required to be written in the format YYYY-MM-DD |
| exclude_domains | array | – | List of domains to specifically exclude, if the user asks to exclude a domain set this to the domain of the site |
| include_domains | array | – | A list of domains to specifically include in the search results, if the user asks to search on specific sites set this to the domain of the site |
| include_favicon | boolean | – | Whether to include the favicon URL for each result |
| include_image_descriptions | boolean | – | Include a list of query-related images and their descriptions in the response |
| include_images | boolean | – | Include a list of query-related images in the response |
| include_raw_content | boolean | – | Include the cleaned and parsed HTML content of each search result |
| max_results | number | – | The maximum number of search results to return |
| query | string | yes | Search query |
| search_depth | string | – | The depth of the search. 'basic' for generic results, 'advanced' for more thorough search, 'fast' for optimized low latency with high relevance, 'ultra-fast' for prioritizing latency above all else |
| start_date | string | – | Will return all results after the specified start date. Required to be written in the format YYYY-MM-DD. |
| time_range | string | – | The time range back from the current date to include in the search results. This feature is available for both 'general' and 'news' search topics |
| topic | string | – | The category of the search. This will determine which of our agents will be used for the search |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp server?
io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y tavily-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · tavily-mcp
claude mcp add tavily-ai-tavily-mcp -- npx -y tavily-mcp
What is the io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp server?
io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp is listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp. MCP server for advanced web search using Tavily. This page covers its npm package (tavily-mcp).
Is the io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp server safe to use?
io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp scores 76 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We recorded 8 known advisories against it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp server expose?
io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp exposes 4 tools: tavily_search, tavily_extract, tavily_crawl, tavily_map. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,017 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp server still maintained?
io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp server under?
io.github.tavily-ai/tavily-mcp declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.