BD tavily-web-search
Complete Tavily toolkit: Search, Extract, Usage, Crawl, Map, Research. All official APIs with safety controls.
As a process D 41/100 · Unfinished process — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions
How to improve
- 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
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-cron-mentionSKILL.md:402Mentions editing / listing crontabcrontab -e
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low Exfiltration
read-dotenvSKILL.md:454Reads a .env filecat ~/.openclaw/.env | grep TAVILY
Files scanned: 16. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
frontmatter-yamlSKILL.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-whendescription does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when") - note
frontmatter-keyunknown 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