--- title: "Connect Vapi to Tavily - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Assistant\" fires in Vapi, your agent runs \"Create research task\" in Tavily." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/vapi-to-tavily" --- # Connect Vapi to Tavily When **New Assistant** fires in [Vapi](https://apiant.ai/connections/vapi), your agent runs **Create research task** in [Tavily](https://apiant.ai/connections/tavily). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Vapi **3** triggers Vapi **21** actions Tavily **7** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Vapi and Tavily to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Vapi can start in Tavily - When **New Assistant** in Vapi then **Create research task** in Tavily - When **New Call** in Vapi then **Get research task status** in Tavily Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Vapi and Tavily ## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 28 actions - Trigger **New Assistant** Triggers when a new assistant is created in your Vapi organization. - Trigger **New Call** Triggers when a new call is created in Vapi, optionally limited to one assistant or phone number. - Trigger **New File** Triggers when a new file is uploaded to your Vapi account. - Action **Add assistant** Creates a new Vapi voice assistant with its model, voice, transcriber, first message and call behavior. - Action **Add phone number** Adds a phone number to Vapi: a free Vapi number, or one you bring from Twilio, Vonage, Telnyx or your own SIP trunk. Returns the new phone number record. - Action **Add squad** Creates a squad: a group of assistants that hand a call off to one another, starting with the first member. - Action **Add tool** Creates a tool in Vapi (for example a function, end-call, transfer-call or API-request tool) that assistants can use during calls. - Action **Create Call** Starts a Vapi call (or a batch of outbound calls) using a saved or one-off assistant, squad or workflow, and returns the created call. - Action **Create Chat** Sends a message to a Vapi assistant or squad as a text chat and returns the chat, including the assistant's reply messages. - Action **Delete assistant** Deletes an assistant from your Vapi account and returns the deleted assistant. - Action **Delete Call Data** Deletes a call and its data, including recordings, and returns the deleted call. - Action **Delete Chat** Deletes a chat from your Vapi account and returns the deleted chat's details. - Action **Delete File** Deletes a file from your Vapi account. - Action **Find Call** Finds calls matching a call id, assistant, phone number, or created/updated date range. Returns up to 1000 matching calls. - Action **Get assistant** Returns a Vapi assistant's full configuration, including its model, voice, transcriber and first message. - Action **Get file** Returns a file uploaded to Vapi, including its name, size, type, processing status and download URL. - Action **List assistants** Returns the voice assistants in your Vapi account, optionally filtered by when they were created or last updated. - Action **List chats** Returns the chats in your Vapi account, optionally filtered by assistant, squad, session or creation/update date. - Action **List files** Returns the files uploaded to your Vapi account, optionally filtered by purpose. - Action **List phone numbers** Returns the phone numbers in your Vapi account, optionally filtered by when they were created or updated. - Action **List tools** Returns the tools configured in your Vapi account, optionally filtered by when they were created or updated. - Action **Update Call** Updates the name of an existing Vapi call. - Action **Update phone number** Updates a Vapi phone number's name, the assistant, squad or workflow that answers it, and its provider settings. - Action **Upload File** Uploads a file to Vapi, for use by assistants or knowledge bases, and returns the stored file record. - Action **Crawl** Crawls a website starting from one address and returns the content of the pages it finds. - Action **Create research task** Starts a Tavily research task for a question you supply and returns its ID and status. Use the ID with Get research task status to collect the finished report. - Action **Extract** Reads one or more web pages and returns their content as markdown or plain text, plus any addresses that could not be read. - Action **Get research task status** Checks a Tavily research task by its ID and returns its current status, and the finished report with its sources once the task is complete. - Action **Get usage** Returns how many Tavily credits have been used this billing cycle, for both the API key and the account, along with the plan limits and a breakdown per feature. - Action **Map** Maps a website starting from an address you supply and returns the list of pages found, without pulling their content. - Action **Search** Searches the web for a query you supply and returns ranked results with titles, addresses and snippets, plus an optional written answer. ## Each app on its own - [ **Vapi** Vapi is a developer-first Voice AI platform for building natural, low-latency, multilingual phone agents via...](https://apiant.ai/connections/vapi) - [ **Tavily** Tavily AI is a web research tool optimized for LLMs and RAG, offering access to real-time, reliable online...](https://apiant.ai/connections/tavily) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Vapi - [ **Vapi to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/vapi-to-zoom) - [ **Vapi to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/vapi-to-webflow) - [ **Vapi to Wix** The Wix website builder gives businesses of any size the tools to create, manage and grow a fully integrated...](https://apiant.ai/connect/vapi-to-wix) - [ **Vapi to LinkedIn** LinkedIn is a professional networking platform enabling job seekers, companies, and thought leaders to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/vapi-to-linkedin) - [ **Vapi to Facebook** Facebook is a social media and advertising platform used by individuals and businesses to connect, share...](https://apiant.ai/connect/vapi-to-facebook) - [ **Vapi to Anthropic** Anthropic builds Claude, a family of large language models.](https://apiant.ai/connect/vapi-to-anthropic) ## More into Tavily - [ **CRUSH to Tavily** CRUSH is an AI powered second brain helping you collect a thought, organize it and take action.](https://apiant.ai/connect/crush-to-tavily) - [ **HubSpot to Tavily** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-tavily) - [ **Salesforce to Tavily** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-tavily) - [ **Slack to Tavily** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-tavily) - [ **Google Sheets to Tavily** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-tavily) - [ **Gmail to Tavily** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-tavily) Questions ## Vapi and Tavily, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Vapi? Any of Vapi's 3 triggers in the catalog, including New Assistant, New Call and New File. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Tavily when something happens in Vapi? Any of Tavily's 7 actions, including Create research task, Crawl, Extract and Get research task status. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Tavily to Vapi? Tavily has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Vapi. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Tavily's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Vapi or Tavily? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Vapi and Tavily without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.