AI-optimised search returning direct answers with citations — not just links
Tavily is the leading search skill for agent research pipelines and one of the most recommended alternatives to raw web search on ClawHub. Unlike standard search skills that return a list of links for your agent to parse, Tavily returns AI-synthesised answers with source citations attached. Ask it a research question and you get a direct answer with references — not ten blue links to sift through. This dramatically reduces the number of follow-up steps your agent needs to take, saving tokens and time. Widely used in multi-step research agents and competitive intelligence pipelines.
Skim the SKILL.md before installing, and check which credentials it asks for against what it actually claims to do.
You must supply secrets for this skill to work. A skill with a valid key can do anything that key permits, so scope each one as narrowly as the provider allows and never reuse an admin key.
Declares 1 required credential: TAVILY_API_KEY
It queries a database or persistent store. Prefer a read-only credential unless it genuinely needs to write.
This skill's own description refers to "query"
It contacts external services. Outbound calls are how data leaves your machine, so it is worth knowing where it connects.
This skill's own description refers to "web"
These permissions are inferred from this listing — the credentials it declares, any maintainer warning, and the operations its own description mentions. ClawVault has not audited this skill's source code. Treat it as a starting point for your own review, not a substitute for one.
An OpenClaw skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file: Markdown with YAML frontmatter. At startup OpenClaw scans the eligible skill directories and injects a compressed description of each skill into its system prompt, so the agent knows what it can do and invokes a skill when a request matches.
openclaw skills search tavily-searchClawHub is the public registry for OpenClaw skills. Searching first gives you the exact owner-qualified reference, which is what the install command needs. Omit the query to browse the default feed.
openclaw skills verify @<owner>/tavily-searchverify prints ClawHub's verification envelope, including its scan decision and, when available, a commit-pinned source URL. Add --card to read the generated Skill Card instead. Substitute the owner handle returned by the search above.
openclaw skills install @<owner>/tavily-searchNative ClawHub skills use an @owner/slug reference. By default this installs into the active workspace skills/ directory; add --global to install into the shared managed directory instead. You can also install from Git with git:owner/repo, or from a local folder with ./path.
openclaw skills checkcheck reports which ready skills are actually visible to the agent's prompt surface, which is the quickest way to catch a skill that installed but did not load.
Commands follow the official OpenClaw documentation. Placeholders such as <owner> are filled in by the search step, because registry references are publisher-scoped.
Direct answer generation without links, added source attribution, improved accuracy
Since February 2026 ClawHub screens submitted skills with VirusTotal: each bundle is hashed and looked up, new bundles are scanned with Code Insight, and results drive an approve, warn or block decision with daily re-scanning. This materially reduces supply-chain risk but does not eliminate it, and independent research has found that different scanners frequently disagree about the same skill. Read the SKILL.md of anything you install, especially if it requests shell access or credentials.
Deploy OpenClaw, Hermes, or PicoClaw on Bluehost with the right template for the job.
Composio is the most powerful integration skill for OpenClaw — it connects your agent to 860+ external tools and services through a single installation. Instead of building custom authentication pipelines for every service, Composio handles OAuth, API keys, and session management automatically. Connect to GitHub, Slack, Gmail, Notion, Linear, Jira, HubSpot, Stripe and hundreds more without writing a single line of auth code.
Web Browsing is the single most installed skill on ClawHub with over 180,000 installs and for good reason — without it your OpenClaw agent is a chatbot running on stale training data. This official first-party skill gives your agent the ability to navigate real web pages, extract content, follow links, fill forms and interact with live websites exactly as a human would. Research tasks, documentation lookups, price monitoring, competitor analysis and fact-checking all start here. It is the foundation that most advanced agent workflows are built on top of.
Perplexity AI provides advanced research capabilities with real-time web search integration. Unlike traditional search, Perplexity combines information gathering with AI reasoning to synthesize comprehensive answers with full citations. Perfect for agents that need to research complex topics and provide well-sourced insights.