exa-search

exa-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from majiang213/OpenClaw-MAS. It costs 49 tokens per session (862 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of exa-search, MIT.

A neural search workflow for finding current web pages, code examples, companies, people, and technical references through Exa. It uses Exa’s search tools to retrieve relevant external information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search the web, find implementation examples and API references, research companies or competitors, and look up professional profiles.
Why use it?
It helps agents gather up-to-date information when their built-in knowledge may be incomplete or outdated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to search the web, find implementation examples and API references, research companies or competitors, and look up professional profiles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/majiang213/openclaw-mas/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 majiang213/OpenClaw-MAS --skill exa-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/majiang213/OpenClaw-MAS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 862 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 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 5.1 $0.00049 $0.00862
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00431
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00086

Measured 6d ago against content hash b802dedcf7a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 6d 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

100% identical to exa-search — 0 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.

ecc-skills/exa-search/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 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 · 104 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. 6d ago First seen · 104 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A b802dedcf7a5

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exa-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository majiang213/OpenClaw-MAS (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 862 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 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.