exa-rag

exa-rag is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ejirocodes/agent-skills. It costs 125 tokens per session (862 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for building RAG systems with Exa.ai, a web-search service that retrieves current online information for AI applications. It covers integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and the Vercel AI SDK.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build web-backed RAG pipelines, connect Exa to LangChain or LlamaIndex, add search to Next.js AI apps, or expose Exa search through MCP, OpenAI tools, or function calls.
Why use it?
It helps an AI application find relevant web content before generating an answer, so responses can use current sources instead of only the model’s stored knowledge.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the exa plugin — 4 skills shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install exa, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 862 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original 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 $0.00125 $0.00862
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00431
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00086

Measured 5d ago against content hash a7d40f62d0a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exa-rag 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.

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/skills/exa-rag/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exa RAG Integration

Quick Reference

Topic When to Use Reference
LangChain Building RAG chains with LangChain langchain.md
LlamaIndex Using Exa as a LlamaIndex data source llamaindex.md
Vercel AI SDK Adding web search to Next.js AI apps vercel-ai.md
MCP & Tools Claude MCP server, OpenAI tools, function calling mcp-tools.md

Essential Patterns

LangChain Retriever

from langchain_exa import ExaSearchRetriever

retriever = ExaSearchRetriever(
    exa_api_key="your-key",
    k=5,
    highlights=True
)

docs = retriever.invoke("latest AI research papers")

LlamaIndex Reader

from llama_index.readers.web import ExaReader

reader = ExaReader(api_key="your-key")
documents = reader.load_data(
    query="machine learning best practices",
    num_results=10
)

Vercel AI SDK Tool

import { exa } from "@agentic/exa";
import { createOpenAI } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { generateText } from "ai";

const result = await generateText({
  model: openai("gpt-4"),
  tools: { search: exa.searchAndContents },
  prompt: "Search for the latest TypeScript features",
});

OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.exa.ai/v1",
    api_key="your-exa-key"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="exa",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What are the latest AI trends?"}]
)

Integration Selection

Framework Best For Key Feature
LangChain Complex chains, agents ExaSearchRetriever, tool integration
LlamaIndex Document indexing, Q&A ExaReader, query engines
Vercel AI SDK Next.js apps, streaming Tool definitions, edge-ready
OpenAI Compat Drop-in replacement Minimal code changes
Claude MCP Claude Desktop, Claude Code Native tool calling

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 98 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A a7d40f62d0a7

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exa-rag is a skill published in the GitHub repository ejirocodes/agent-skills (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 862 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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