tavily-dynamic-search

SKILL.md

Tavily Dynamic Search

Search the web, filter results, and extract content so that raw search data never enters your context window. Only your curated print() output comes back.

Why this matters

A typical tvly search --include-raw-content returns 8 results × 30-50K chars each = ~300K characters of raw page content. If this enters your context window, you burn tokens reading navigation bars, cookie banners, and boilerplate — and your reasoning quality degrades under the noise. By processing results inside a Python script, only your print() output enters context — typically 1-3K characters of pure signal. That's a 100-200x reduction.

Background: Programmatic Tool Calling (PTC)

This skill replicates the architecture of Anthropic's Programmatic Tool Calling (PTC) for web search. PTC lets the model write code that orchestrates tool calls inside a sandbox — intermediate results stay in the sandbox, and only the final print() output reaches the model's context window.

This skill applies the same principle using local Python execution. The Python process is the sandbox. Variables in memory hold the raw data. Only what you print() crosses into your context window. You write the filtering logic — you decide what matters for each query.

Before running any command

If tvly is not found on PATH, install it first: