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Overview

NanoClaw is a lightweight runtime for personal AI agents. It connects an agent to channels such as Slack, Telegram, Discord, and the CLI, gives it a persistent workspace and memory, supports scheduled tasks, and runs sessions in isolated containers. Tavily adds current web information to that setup. A NanoClaw agent can search for recent documentation, releases, API changes, incidents, and security advisories, then extract the relevant pages before replying in the same conversation.

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What the integration adds

The default NanoClaw skill exposes two tools through Tavily’s remote MCP server:
  • Tavily Search finds ranked, relevant sources from the live web.
  • Tavily Extract reads clean content from one or more URLs.
The tools are added only to the agent groups you select and work with NanoClaw providers that support MCP.

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Set up Tavily in NanoClaw

1

Install NanoClaw

If NanoClaw is not already running, clone it and launch the setup flow:
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Run the Tavily skill

Open Claude Code from the NanoClaw checkout and run:
Select the agent groups that need web access. The skill installs the MCP bridge, registers Tavily Search and Extract, rebuilds the agent image, and restarts the selected groups.
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Test it from your channel

Send a request from Slack, Telegram, Discord, or the CLI:
The response should use Tavily Search and include links to the retrieved sources.

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What you can build

  • Developer research assistant: Check current documentation, release notes, GitHub issues, and migration risks without leaving the team chat.
  • Scheduled intelligence brief: Track a market, company, or topic and deliver a recurring update with sources.
  • Source-backed chat assistant: Answer current questions and read URLs shared in the conversation before responding.

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Keyless access and API keys

The NanoClaw skill starts with Tavily’s keyless access, so you can try Search and Extract without creating an account or adding a key. If you later need higher limits, NanoClaw can store a Tavily API key in OneCLI’s Agent Vault. OneCLI injects the credential when the request is sent; the key does not need to live in the agent’s prompt, workspace, or container environment.

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Troubleshooting

Confirm that you selected the correct agent group, then restart it. If the MCP bridge is missing, run /add-tavily-tool again and let it rebuild the agent image.
Ask it to use Tavily explicitly. In NanoClaw’s tool trace, the installed tools appear as mcp__tavily__tavily_search and mcp__tavily__tavily_extract.
Follow the upgrade prompt to add a Tavily API key through OneCLI, then retry the request. Search and Extract keep the same response format.

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