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Build production-ready Tavily integrations with best practices baked in. Reference documentation for developers using coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) to implement web search, content extraction, crawling, and research in agentic workflows, RAG systems, or autonomous agents.

ClawHub Agent Skills author: James Barney v0.1.0 7 files body ≈ 1 167 tokens Open the sourceclawhub.ai analyzed 2 d ago

As a process C 54/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, failures and branches

IntegrationAI and agentsSoftware developmenttype and topics are labelled automatically from the skill text
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Technical rating
A
90/100
safety, quality, tests
Safety 60%
100
Quality 40%
76
Run on models
none yet
Process rating
C
54/100
Has gaps
Result and completion w 14
0
Failures and branches w 10
0
Progress reporting w 2
0
the three weakest of ten parameters · all ten

The same skill appears in 1 more place: ClawHub

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 · 0

✓ No critical or high findings

Files scanned: 7. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.

Against the Agent Skills spec

  • warning description-no-when description does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when")

Process rating: all ten parameters 54/100

  • 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
  • 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
  • 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
  • 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
  • 60Tools and files. Uses tools (web, python) that frontmatter does not declare
  • 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
  • 100Steps. 6 steps
  • 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
  • 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1167 tokens
  • 100Running it twice. No mutating operations

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)
  • +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
  • +1No license
  • +2Single-language instructions
  • +3Description length 288: enough signal without eating the budget
  • +4Structure: 12 headings
  • +3Step-by-step instructions: 6 items
  • +4Has examples (9 code blocks)
  • +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (6 of 6)

Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 76.

External checks

ClawHub: clean
This skill is a coherent Tavily integration guide; it involves normal third-party API, package-install, and API-key setup risks but does not show hidden or purpose-mismatched behavior.
LLM: benign (high) · VirusTotal: benign · 10 Sept 2026