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 without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and analyzes publicly accessible website structure and navigation information. It discovers and maps URLs but does not modify, delete, or execute code. The operations are informational only, with no side effects on target systems. The sibling tools (tavily-search, tavily-extract, tavily-crawl) are similarly Read-category tools.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'creates a structured map of website URLs' and is used for 'site audits, content discovery, and understanding website architecture' — all read-only operations that analyze and retrieve information about website structure without…
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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 MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Tavily 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. 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 MCP server (jackedelic/tavily-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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