exa-search

exa-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chadixearth/graphyloop. It costs 49 tokens per session (924 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of exa-search, MIT.

A web and code research tool that uses Exa's search service to find relevant pages, examples, technical references, companies, and professional profiles. It requires an Exa connection to work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search the web, find code examples and API documentation, research companies or competitors, look up people, and conduct background research for development work.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching across unrelated results when gathering current information or finding useful code and documentation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to search the web, find code examples and API documentation, research companies or competitors, look up people, and conduct background research for development work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chadixearth/graphyloop/exa-search
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.

Any agent
npx skills add chadixearth/graphyloop --skill exa-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chadixearth/graphyloop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 924 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 89% 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 5.1 $0.00049 $0.00924
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00462
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00092

Measured 7d ago against content hash 59b029b1065a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to exa-search — 12 lines 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.

skills/exa-search/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Drift-prone skill. Exa MCP tool names, parameters, and account limits can change. Confirm the exposed tool surface and current Exa docs before relying on a specific search mode, category, or livecrawl behavior.

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 ~/.opencode.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. This repo's current Exa setup documents the tool surface exposed here: web_search_exa and get_code_context_exa. If your Exa server exposes additional tools, verify their exact names before depending on them in docs or prompts.

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
type string auto Search mode
livecrawl string fallback Prefer live crawling when needed
category string none Optional focus such as company or research paper

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:

Param Type Default Notes
query string required Code or API search query
tokensNum number 5000 Content tokens (1000-50000)

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 110 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 59b029b1065a

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exa-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository chadixearth/graphyloop (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 924 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to exa-search, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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