What is websearch-to-exa?

A WebSearch replacement that sends searches to the Exa search service and returns results in the usual WebSearch format. Without an Exa API key, it falls back to the built-in search.

It is for researching topics through an agent's web searches. It supports automatic, neural, and keyword search modes when an Exa key is provided.

It lets searches use Exa when configured while retaining the built-in search as a fallback. You can choose the search mode and result count.

websearch-to-exa — Plugin for Claude Code by davila7

About the project

Claude Code Templates is a command-line tool and catalogue for configuring Anthropic’s Claude Code with agents, commands, settings, hooks, integrations, skills, and project templates. Developers use it to browse and install reusable components for their coding workflows. The catalogue includes many of these Claude Code components.

davila7/claude-code-templates · 33,152 stars · on GitHub · aitmpl.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Your own site

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

websearch-to-exa scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

cli-tool/components/mods/integrations/websearch-to-exa/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 43 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "websearch-to-exa",
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "description": "Overrides the built-in WebSearch tool and routes queries to the Exa search API through $.http.fetch, answering in WebSearch's own result shape, with automatic fallback to the built-in search. A tool.call hook that replaces a core tool.",
  "author": {
    "name": "claude-code-templates",
    "url": "https://www.aitmpl.com"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "mod",
    "function-hooks",
    "integrations"
  ],
  "userConfig": {
    "exaApiKey": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Exa API key",
      "description": "Your Exa API key; with none set, the built-in WebSearch runs",
      "default": "",
      "sensitive": true
    },
    "numResults": {
      "type": "number",
      "title": "Results per query",
      "description": "How many Exa results to return",
      "default": 8
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Search type",
      "description": "Exa search mode",
      "default": "auto",
      "options": [
        "auto",
        "neural",
        "keyword"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago First seen · 43 lines scan A 22f03a7ec4bf

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websearch-to-exa is a plugin published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-code-templates (33,152 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-17.

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