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BD tavily-web-search

Complete Tavily toolkit: Search, Extract, Usage, Crawl, Map, Research. All official APIs with safety controls.

ClawHub Agent Skills author: BruceTangc v2.0.6 MIT-0 16 files body ≈ 2 899 tokens Open the sourceclawhub.ai analyzed 4 d ago

As a process D 41/100 · Unfinished process — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions

ProcedureInfrastructuretype and topics are labelled automatically from the skill text
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Technical rating
B
80/100
safety, quality, tests
Safety 60%
98
Quality 40%
53
Run on models
none yet
Process rating
D
41/100
Unfinished process
Result and completion w 14
0
Inputs and preconditions w 11
0
Failures and branches w 10
0
the three weakest of ten parameters · all ten

How to improve

  1. Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
For the model run — optional
  • Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
  • A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.

Guard findings · 2

✓ No critical or high findings

Medium and low: 2
  • low Dangerous commands cmd-cron-mention SKILL.md:402
    Mentions editing / listing crontab
    crontab -e
  • low Exfiltration read-dotenv SKILL.md:454
    Reads a .env file
    cat ~/.openclaw/.env | grep TAVILY

Files scanned: 16. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.

Against the Agent Skills spec

  • warning frontmatter-yaml SKILL.md: the frontmatter is not valid YAML (YAML parse error: Nested mappings are not allowed in compact mappings at line 2, column 14: description: Complete Tavily toolkit: Search, Extract, Usage, Crawl, Map, Resea… ^ ); fields were read line by line. The usual cause is a colon inside an unquoted value
  • warning description-no-when description does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when")
  • note frontmatter-key unknown frontmatter key "homepage"

Process rating: all ten parameters 41/100

  • 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
  • 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
  • 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
  • 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
  • 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
  • 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (tavily-web-search) differs from the folder (tavily-web-search-full)
  • 60Tools and files. Uses tools (web) that frontmatter does not declare
  • 100Steps. 45 steps
  • 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2899 tokens
  • 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
  • low 11 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill

Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.

Quality signals

  • +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
  • +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
  • +3Description length 110: 120–800 characters recommended
  • +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
  • -242 emoji in the instructions: noise for the model
  • -31 of 9 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
  • +1No license
  • +2Single-language instructions
  • +4Structure: 53 headings
  • +3Step-by-step instructions: 45 items
  • +4Has examples (24 code blocks)

Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 53.

External checks

ClawHub: clean
This is a coherent Tavily API skill that uses expected network calls, API-key access, local caching, and optional update checks for its stated search/research purpose.
LLM: benign (high) · VirusTotal: benign · 28 May 2026