tavily-mcp

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add io-github-tavily-ai-tavily-mcp -e TAVILY_API_KEY=... -e DEFAULT_PARAMETERS=... -- npx -y tavily-mcp

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-tavily-ai-tavily-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tavily-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "...",
        "DEFAULT_PARAMETERS": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

MCP server for advanced web search using Tavily

Questions

tavily-mcp is a local MCP server distributed as the npm package tavily-mcp.

Run: claude mcp add io-github-tavily-ai-tavily-mcp -e TAVILY_API_KEY=... -e DEFAULT_PARAMETERS=... -- npx -y tavily-mcp

Run: codex mcp add io-github-tavily-ai-tavily-mcp --env TAVILY_API_KEY=... --env DEFAULT_PARAMETERS=... -- npx -y tavily-mcp

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