exa-search

A neural search skill for finding current web information, code examples, companies, and people through Exa.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports web and news searches, technical reference and code searches, company research, professional-profile lookup, and broader AI-assisted research.
Why use it?
It helps agents locate relevant external information when built-in knowledge may be incomplete or outdated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arogyareddy/https-github.com-affaan-m-everything-claude-code1/exa-search
Any agent
npx skills add ArogyaReddy/https-github.com-affaan-m-everything-claude-code1 --skill exa-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArogyaReddy/https-github.com-affaan-m-everything-claude-code1

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,242 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00049 $0.01242
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00621
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00248
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00124

Measured yesterday against content hash 284d5c438457, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exa-search 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to exa-search — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/exa-search/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Neural search for web content, code, companies, and people via the Exa MCP server.

When to Activate

  • User needs current web information or news
  • Searching for code examples, API docs, or technical references
  • Researching companies, competitors, or market players
  • Finding professional profiles or people in a domain
  • Running background research for any development task
  • User says "search for", "look up", "find", or "what's the latest on"

MCP Requirement

Exa MCP server must be configured. Add to ~/.claude.json:

"exa-web-search": {
  "command": "npx",
  "args": ["-y", "exa-mcp-server"],
  "env": { "EXA_API_KEY": "YOUR_EXA_API_KEY_HERE" }
}

Get an API key at exa.ai.

Core Tools

web_search_exa

General web search for current information, news, or facts.

web_search_exa(query: "latest AI developments 2026", numResults: 5)

Parameters:

Param Type Default Notes
query string required Search query
numResults number 8 Number of results

web_search_advanced_exa

Filtered search with domain and date constraints.

web_search_advanced_exa(
  query: "React Server Components best practices",
  numResults: 5,
  includeDomains: ["github.com", "react.dev"],
  startPublishedDate: "2025-01-01"
)

Parameters:

Param Type Default Notes
query string required Search query
numResults number 8 Number of results
includeDomains string[] none Limit to specific domains
excludeDomains string[] none Exclude specific domains
startPublishedDate string none ISO date filter (start)
endPublishedDate string none ISO date filter (end)

get_code_context_exa

Find code examples and documentation from GitHub, Stack Overflow, and docs sites.

get_code_context_exa(query: "Python asyncio patterns", tokensNum: 3000)

Parameters:

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 171 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 284d5c438457

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exa-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArogyaReddy/https-github.com-affaan-m-everything-claude-code1 (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,242 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to exa-search, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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