Grok Build

Give Grok Build, xAI’s terminal coding agent, live web search, extraction, crawling, and research through the official Tavily plugin. The plugin connects to Tavily’s hosted MCP server and bundles Tavily skills.

Install the plugin

Inside Grok Build, open the plugin manager, search for Tavily, and install it:

/plugin

Don't have Grok Build yet?

curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash

On Windows:

irm https://x.ai/cli/install.ps1 | iex

On first launch, Grok opens a browser to sign in to your x.ai account.

On first connection, Grok Build opens Tavily’s authorization page in your browser. Sign in to connect your Tavily account. No API key is needed.

Try it

Ask Grok Build a current-events question:

Use Tavily to search for the latest Model Context Protocol announcements and cite the sources.

Grok Build should call tavily_search and return grounded results with sources.

Watch the setup

What the Tavily plugin adds

Tools

Tool	What it does
`tavily_search`	Search the web for current, relevant sources with domain and date filters
`tavily_extract`	Extract clean, structured content from one or more webpages
`tavily_map`	Discover URLs and understand a website’s structure
`tavily_crawl`	Crawl multiple pages and retrieve their content
`tavily_research`	Produce comprehensive multi-source research with citations

Skills

Skill	What it does
`tavily-web`	Coordinates Tavily tools for search, extraction, mapping, crawling, and research
`tavily-best-practices`	Helps developers build production-ready Tavily integrations
`academic-scientific-research`	Finds, screens, and synthesizes academic papers and scientific literature
`investment-research-briefs`	Creates company, sector, portfolio, and investment research briefs
`product-competitor-intelligence`	Compares products, pricing, positioning, features, and competitors
`sales-account-intelligence`	Builds sales-ready company, prospect, and buyer intelligence
`threat-intelligence-enrichment`	Enriches CVEs, IOCs, malware, threat actors, and security incidents
`vendor-risk-kyc-screening`	Screens companies and executives for vendor risk and KYC concerns

Example prompts

Search for the latest changes to the Model Context Protocol and cite the primary sources.

Research the leading agent observability platforms and compare their capabilities with citations.

Find recent papers on retrieval-augmented generation and summarize the strongest evidence.

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What the Tavily plugin adds

Tools

Skills

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