# Tavily MCP Server

> Tavily MCP Server is an officially published MCP server from Tavily. Anomity scores its risk at 10 out of 100 (low).

- **Canonical URL:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/mcp/tavily-mcp-server
- **Kind:** MCP server
- **Publisher:** Tavily
- **Trust level:** official
- **Risk score:** 10/100 (low)
- **Website:** https://tavily.com
- **Repository:** https://github.com/tavily-ai/tavily-mcp
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-02
- **JSON:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/api/entries/mcp/tavily-mcp-server

## Description

Tavily's official server provides search and data extraction designed for LLM pipelines, returning summarised, source-attributed results intended to be dropped straight into a context window.

Outbound network access is its only capability. Its source attribution is a genuine security feature, not just a citation nicety: an agent that reports where a claim came from lets a human check whether the claim came from somewhere trustworthy, which is the only practical defence against retrieval-borne injection at the moment. Prefer retrieval tools that preserve provenance over ones that return anonymous text.

## Why it scored 10

The score starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50 and moves only through the signals below. The formula is published at https://catalog.anomity.ai/about — there is no model and no hidden heuristic.

| Signal | Contribution | Severity | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Published by the vendor | -40 | trust offset |  |

Clamped result: **10/100**, band **low**.

## Capabilities

| Capability | Name | Security implication |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `network:outbound` | Outbound network | Can make outbound network requests. Required for hosted model providers and remote APIs; also the path for data exfiltration if combined with read access. |

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Source: Anomity Catalog (https://catalog.anomity.ai/). Scoring methodology: https://catalog.anomity.ai/about. Machine-readable index: https://catalog.anomity.ai/llms.txt · https://catalog.anomity.ai/openapi.json