How to add Tavily search in AI agent - tool?

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Describe the problem/error/question

There is a task that I have to create an AI agent with Tavily search tool. But I cannot find a relevant node in the list of available tools.
At the same time, Tavily node has been already installed in my instance through Community node (n8n-nodes-tavily) area and can be chosen as separate node.
My current version of n8n is v. 1.120.3.

Dear community, if there any chance to add Tavily search as a tool of AI agent in new versions of n8n or it’s possible to use only by some alternative nodes (e.g. Code or HTTP request)?

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what is tivoly? if you mean tavily, install or updated to latest version and then you can use it as tool node

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Sorry, I meant Tavily. You are right. It was a typo there.
I will try to update, thx.
But my n8n was updated just a couple of weeks ago to lastest version on that moment and it doesn’t have Tavily as a tool in AI agent…

5

update your tavily node then

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I had this issue also, until I installed the @tavily/n8n-nodes-tavily community package, then the tool was available in the AI tools.

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How? I was unable to connect through AI agent. I installed it but I can only find it in the nodes list not the AI agent tools list

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I was unable to connect through AI agent. I installed it but I can only find it in the nodes list not the AI agent tools list. help!

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The community node issue is a package name thing. There are two different Tavily packages floating around:

  • n8n-nodes-tavily (older, may not be tool-compatible)
    • @tavily/n8n-nodes-tavily (the official one from Tavily’s team — this one has the AI tool integration)
      If you installed the first one, uninstall it and install @tavily/n8n-nodes-tavily instead. Community nodes only show up in the AI Agent tools list if they export a node with usableAsTool: true in their definition — the official package does this, the older community one may not.

If you’re on n8n Cloud or can’t install that package, the fallback that always works: HTTP Request node as a tool. Add an HTTP Request node to your agent’s tool list, configure it to call https://api.tavily.com/search with a POST body containing your API key and the query field. Set it up to receive the query as an expression, and the AI Agent will call it exactly like a native tool. Same results, zero dependency on community nodes.