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.
npx skills add OpenMinis/MinisSkills --skill exa-searchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenMinis/MinisSkillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/openminis/minisskills/exa-search)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/openminis/minisskills/exa-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/openminis/minisskills/exa-search/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/openminis/minisskills/exa-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/openminis/minisskills/exa-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00063 | $0.00579 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00032 | $0.00290 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00116 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00058 |
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 9d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Exa Search
Use this skill for Exa MCP web retrieval.
When to Use
- Current web search
- Web research that needs clean LLM-ready results
- Domain, date, and category filtered search
- Company or people lookup through search filters
- Read full page content from known URLs as markdown
Preferred Tools
web_search_exa: default search toolweb_fetch_exa: fetch one or more URLs as markdownweb_search_advanced_exa: use only when filters or advanced options are needed
Workflow
- Run
list_toolsto confirm what the current server exposes. - For most tasks, start with
web_search_exa. - If the user already has URLs, or search results need full content, use
web_fetch_exa. - Use
web_search_advanced_exaonly when the task needs filters such as domains, categories, dates, highlights, summaries, or subpage crawling. - Prefer the current tools above as the main operating path.
Commands
# Inspect current MCP tools
python3 /var/minis/skills/exa-search/scripts/query.py list_tools
# General search
python3 /var/minis/skills/exa-search/scripts/query.py call_tool web_search_exa '{"query":"latest changes in Exa MCP docs","numResults":5}'
# Fetch page content
python3 /var/minis/skills/exa-search/scripts/query.py call_tool web_fetch_exa '{"urls":["https://exa.ai/docs/reference/exa-mcp"]}'
# Advanced search with filters
python3 /var/minis/skills/exa-search/scripts/query.py call_tool web_search_advanced_exa '{"query":"Exa MCP documentation","includeDomains":["exa.ai"],"numResults":5,"enableHighlights":true}'
Notes
- Base MCP URL:
https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp - Do not assume optional tools are enabled in every deployment; verify with
list_tools. - If the server exposes only the default tools, use
web_search_exa+web_fetch_exaas the primary path.
Environment Variables
EXA_API_KEY: optional for basic use, recommended for higher limits and better reliability.- If missing when needed, prompt the user to Set EXA_API_KEY.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 52 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A b088abbf2d7d
exa-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenMinis/MinisSkills (404 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 579 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.
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