A powerful web mapping tool that creates a structured map of website URLs, allowing you to discover and analyze site structure, content organization, and navigation paths. Perfect for site audits, content discovery, and understanding website architecture.
AI agents call tavily-map to retrieve information from Tavily Web Search and Extraction Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
url | string | — | The root URL to begin the mapping |
limit | integer | — | Total number of links the crawler will process before stopping |
max_depth | integer | — | Max depth of the mapping. Defines how far from the base URL the crawler can explore |
categories | array | — | Filter URLs using predefined categories like documentation, blog, api, etc |
max_breadth | integer | — | Max number of links to follow per level of the tree (i.e., per page) |
instructions | string | — | Natural language instructions for the crawler |
select_paths | array | — | Regex patterns to select only URLs with specific path patterns (e.g., /docs/.*, /api/v1.*) |
allow_external | boolean | — | Whether to allow following links that go to external domains |
select_domains | array | — | Regex patterns to select crawling to specific domains or subdomains (e.g., ^docs\.example\.com$) |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
tavily-map performs information retrieval and analysis only. It maps and discovers publicly accessible website structure and organization—a read-only operation with no side effects, no data modification, no code execution, and no destructive capability. The blast radius of misuse is minimal (e.g., reconnaissance of a website's structure), making it low severity.
From the tool's definition The tool "creates a structured map of website URLs" and is described as enabling "site audits, content discovery, and understanding website architecture" without modifying, deleting, or executing any operations on target systems.
Risk signalsAccepts URL/endpoint input (url)
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access tavily-map gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Tavily Web Search and Extraction Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for tavily-map:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"tavily-map": {}
}
}tavily-map is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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A powerful web mapping tool that creates a structured map of website URLs, allowing you to discover and analyze site structure, content organization, and navigation paths. Perfect for site audits, content discovery, and understanding website architecture. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Tavily Web Search and Extraction Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
tavily-map accepts 9 parameters: url, limit, max_depth, categories, max_breadth, instructions, select_paths, allow_external, select_domains. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Tavily Web Search and Extraction Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for tavily-map: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Tavily Web Search and Extraction Server. Nothing to install.
tavily-map is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the tavily-map rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for tavily-map. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
tavily-map is provided by the Tavily Web Search and Extraction Server MCP server (avac22/tavily-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Tavily Web Search and Extraction Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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