Web Search Hikari

Use when the agent needs web search, extract, crawl, map, or research via Tavily Hikari pool (tvly-hikari CLI or tavily_hikari MCP). Prefer this over inventing search APIs.

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Web Search (Tavily Hikari)

What it is

Tavily Hikari is both MCP and HTTP/CLI, not CLI-only:

Mode Endpoint / command
MCP https://tavily.ivanli.cc/mcp + Bearer TAVILY_HIKARI_TOKEN
HTTP https://tavily.ivanli.cc/api/tavily/...
CLI `tvly-hikari search

Token form: th-<id>-<secret> (Hikari access token, not raw Tavily key).

Local config

  • Env: TAVILY_HIKARI_TOKEN
  • Codex: [mcp_servers.tavily_hikari] remote MCP
  • OpenCode: mcp.tavily-hikari remote
  • Detailed skills (optional): tavily-hikari-search, tavily-hikari-extract, tavily-hikari-research, tavily-hikari-cli, tavily-hikari-best-practices

Prefer order

  1. Use MCP tools from tavily_hikari if available in the session.
  2. Else shell: tvly-hikari search "..." --json (if installed).
  3. Else HTTP POST to /api/tavily/search with Bearer token.

Do not

  • Put official Tavily keys into clients; always use Hikari token.
  • Use browser MCP for simple web search when Hikari works.

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Frequently asked questions

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