exa-search

exa-search is a skill for Claude Code from loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes. It costs 49 tokens per session (945 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of exa-search, MIT.

A guide to using Exa, a neural search service, through an MCP connection for finding web pages, code examples, companies, and people.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for web research, API documentation, code examples, company research, people lookup, and AI-related background research.
Why use it?
It helps an agent locate relevant current information and technical context when its built-in knowledge or local files are not enough.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the awesome-claude-notes plugin — 106 skills, 61 commands, 28 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for web research, API documentation, code examples, company research, people lookup, and AI-related background research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes/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 loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes --skill exa-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install awesome-claude-notes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 106 skills, 61 commands, 28 agents.

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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 945 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 94% 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 $0.00945
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00473
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00094

Measured 7d ago against content hash ea3ef2faad7e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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

94% identical to exa-search — 9 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.

docs/ja-JP/skills/exa-search/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 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. 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)

Usage Patterns

Quick Lookup

web_search_exa(query: "Node.js 22 new features", numResults: 3)

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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 · 113 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A ea3ef2faad7e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exa-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes (270 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 945 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to exa-search, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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