exa-native-base

exa-native-base is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CodeAlive-AI/exa-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,388 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A foundation guide for using Exa, a search service, from a local script with an Exa API key. It covers search, page contents, direct answers, similar results, semantic queries, and coordinating subagents for research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build research workflows for companies, people, papers, code, news, finance, and personal topics.
Why use it?
It gives the agent the basic instructions needed to use Exa consistently before applying more specific research tasks.

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/codealive-ai/exa-skills/exa-native-base
Any agent
npx skills add CodeAlive-AI/exa-skills --skill exa-native-base
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/exa-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

agentmods badge for exa-native-base

README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,388 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found 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 $0.00086 $0.01388
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00139

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5bee579c4833, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exa-native-base 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/exa.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

exa-native-base/SKILL.md · 88 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 5d ago First seen · 88 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 5bee579c4833

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exa-native-base is a skill published in the GitHub repository CodeAlive-AI/exa-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,388 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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