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Connect Tavily to Claude Code

Search, read and write Tavily from Claude Code. Arlet links the two through one MCP connection and takes care of keys and authentication.

Enable Tavily in ArletClaude Code connection guide (docs)

Use Tavily's official MCP server from the AI services you already use, through Arlet. Sign in with your Tavily account and the connection is ready.

Your AI can run agent-optimized web searches, extract page content, map site structures and crawl. Usage counts against the connected Tavily account's credits. To choose which API key the OAuth login uses, name a key mcp_auth_default in the Tavily dashboard.

How to connect Tavily to Claude Code

  1. 1

    In the Arlet dashboard, open Integrations → Add an integration and choose Tavily. Sign in with Link Tavily, name the connection and click Create.

  2. 2

    In your terminal, run claude mcp add --transport http arlet https://mcp.arlet.dev/mcp/ to add Arlet as an MCP server.

  3. 3

    Start Claude Code, run /mcp, select arlet and click Authenticate.

  4. 4

    Your browser opens. Sign in with Google and click Allow on the consent screen. The connection is complete.

The connection is per user and works across every project on the same machine.

What you can do

Tavily tools that Claude Code can call.

  • tavily-search

    Web search optimized for AI agents, filterable by recency, domain and topic.

  • tavily-extract

    Extract the main content of given URLs as clean text.

  • tavily-map

    Map a site's structure, its pages and sections.

  • tavily-crawl

    Follow links from a starting URL and fetch many pages at once.

The tool list follows what Tavily's official MCP server provides and may change.

Example uses

  • Gather primary sources

    Search government and corporate sites, extract the relevant pages and keep them in a quotable form.

  • Inventory a competitor's site

    Map a competitor's website to find product, pricing and case-study pages, extract them and build a comparison table.

  • Digest regulatory documents

    Extract long guideline or report pages and organize the key points with their locations.

  • Monitor news on a theme

    Search recent news narrowed by topic and domain and turn it into a weekly digest.

Prompts you can use as-is

  • Find the latest SME digitalization grant information on the METI site and summarize the page
  • Map example.com and list its pricing, product and case-study pages with a summary of each
  • From this guideline URL, pull out every statement about data retention periods
  • Collect the last week's fintech news from major outlets only

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