mcp:exa

mcp:exa is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mochow13/keen-agent. It costs 18 tokens per session (417 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for connecting a coding agent to Exa, a web search service, through MCP, a standard way for tools to communicate with AI applications. It requires reading each tool's argument rules before use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent needs web search results or fetched web content from Exa.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a defined way to search the web without guessing how the connected tools should be called.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when an agent needs web search results or fetched web content from Exa.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mochow13/keen-agent/mcp-exa
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 mochow13/keen-agent --skill mcp-exa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mochow13/keen-agent

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 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 417 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 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 $0.00018 $0.00417
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00209
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00042

Measured 8d ago against content hash e9716187f9fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp:exa 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 8d 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.

examples/stock-analysis/skills/mcp:exa/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Calling tools

Before calling call_mcp_tool, always read the selected tool's schema file: schemas/<tool_name>.json. Strictly follow the schema to pass the correct arguments to the tool.

Use the exact tool name from the "Available tools" table below. Do not guess, abbreviate, or transform names (for example, do not swap - for _ or do not change case). If call_mcp_tool returns "tool not found", re-read this file and use the exact name of the correct tool from the table.

Available tools

Tool name Description
web_search_exa Search the web for any topic and get clean, ready-to-use content. Best for: Finding current information, news, facts, people, companies, or answering questions about any topic. Returns: Clean text content from top search results. Query tips: describe the ideal page, not keywords. "blog post comparing React and Vue performance" not "React vs Vue". Use category:people / category:company to search through Linkedin profiles / companies respectively. If highlights are insufficient, follow up with web_fetch_exa on the best URLs.
web_search_advanced_exa Advanced web search with full control over filters, domains, dates, and content options. Best for: When you need specific filters like date ranges, domain restrictions, or category filters. Not recommended for: Simple searches - use web_search_exa instead. Returns: Search results with optional highlights, summaries, and subpage content.
web_fetch_exa Read a webpage's full content as clean markdown. Use after web_search_exa when highlights are insufficient or to read any URL. Best for: Extracting full content from known URLs. Batch multiple URLs in one call. Returns: Clean text content and metadata from the page(s).
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. 8d ago First seen · 19 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A e9716187f9fb

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mcp:exa is a skill published in the GitHub repository mochow13/keen-agent (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 417 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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