# Tavily — API Agent Score

> Score: 78/100 (Grade: B) | Domain: tavily.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 24, 2026

Tavily scored 78/100 (B), classified "partially-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 78/100 (B)
- Classification: partially-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 94/100 (A+)
- Developer Experience: 49/100 (F)
- Agent Discovery: 100/100 (A+)
- Agent Understanding: 70/100 (B)
- Agent Usability: 79/100 (B)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Schema coverage & depth — package.json "types" → ./dist/index.d.ts. Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 83%.
- [pass] Auth declared & discoverable — Authentication required (global or on every operation). Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [warn] Machine-readable, versioned contract — info.version="1.0.0" set but no versioning scheme (URL / header / media type) detected. Investigated: spec 75%, docs 50%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — No credential-shaped strings detected in spec. Investigated: spec 100%, wellknown 0%.
- [pass] Example coverage — 86% example coverage across params + responses. Investigated: spec 100%, sdk 100%, docs 0%.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Description completeness — 75% description completeness (target 90%+). Investigated: spec 100%.
- [pass] Changelog published — changelog documented in the docs site at https://docs.tavily.com/changelog. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%, sdk 100%.
- [fail] Self-service developer portal — No signup page detected across conventional paths (/signup, /sign-up, /register, /get-started, /console/signup, /dashboard/signup, /try, /try-free, /free, /free-trial, /start, /start-free). Investigated: docs 0%.
- [fail] Quickstart present — No quickstart/getting-started page found at the conventional paths. Investigated: docs 0%.
- [fail] Code samples in docs — No detectable code samples across 20 sampled docs pages. Investigated: docs 0%.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — llms.txt found at https://docs.tavily.com/llms.txt. Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 0%.
- [pass] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — All 50 sampled pages are publicly accessible. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (websites/tavily, 2667 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 67%, cli 50%, mcp 0%, wellknown 0%.
- [pass] Crawlable / AEO — Docs paths crawlable by all monitored AI agents. Investigated: wellknown 100%.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — 10 distinct 4xx/5xx response codes documented. Investigated: docs 100%, spec 50%, sdk 50%.
- [warn] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — 1 of 50 pages have substantive content differences between markdown and HTML (avg 3% missing). Investigated: docs 75%.
- [pass] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — Agent instructions file found at https://tavily.com/AGENTS.md. Investigated: wellknown 100%.
- [pass] Docs structured data — JSON-LD Article markup on 18/18 assessed pages (100%) with dateModified present. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [warn] Description consistency across surfaces — Mean pairwise description similarity across 2 surfaces (spec, docs) is 3% (threshold 35% for full credit).
- [fail] Operation purpose clarity — 0% of operations are agent-inferable. Investigated: spec 0%.

### Agent Usability

- [pass] Idempotency documented — Built-in retry machinery is present (grep-derived). Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [pass] Rate-limit signaling — rate-limit behavior documented in the docs site at https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/rate-limits. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [warn] Sandbox separation — No test-mode flag or sandbox environment is exposed. Investigated: sdk 50%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Runnable collection with test scripts — No public Postman workspace discovered for the org. Investigated: platform 0%.
- [skip] Pagination documented & consistent — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

## Executive Summary

Tavily's API program has a strong, machine-readable contract as its foundation — but partners and their agents face a steep climb from that foundation to a first working integration. The most urgent gap is a complete absence of self-service onboarding infrastructure: no developer portal, no quickstart, and no code samples mean partners cannot get hands-on without direct support. Compounding this, agents integrating with the API lack the operation-level clarity and runnable, test-backed collections they need to build confidently and correctly. Closing these two gaps — self-service onboarding first, then agent-ready runnable context — will unlock partner self-sufficiency and reduce time-to-first-successful-call from weeks to minutes.