What is exa-deep-research?

A multi-step Exa research workflow for questions that need several searches, source checks, and a final synthesis. It can cover people, companies, code, news, literature reviews, lead generation, and competitive analysis.

Use it for deep company or competitor research, literature reviews, news investigations, lead generation, code research, and other source-backed studies.

It is intended for research where one search is not enough, helping gather, inspect, rank, and combine information from multiple sources.

exa-deep-research — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by orchidautomatio

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 orchidautomation/pluxx --skill exa-deep-research

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/orchidautomation/pluxx

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 381 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00046	$0.00381
Opus 5	$0.00023	$0.00191
Sonnet 5	$0.00009	$0.00076
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00038

Measured 10d ago against content hash 47c2839e3344, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exa-deep-research 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 10d 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.

example/exa-plugin/skills/exa-deep-research/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Exa Deep Research

Use this skill when the task needs more than one search pass.

What To Load

For orchestration rules, see references/orchestrator-playbook.md.
For query shape guidance, see references/query-patterns.md.

Workflow

Decide whether the request is simple, moderate, advanced, or complex.
If the task is ambiguous between a quick lookup and a full deep dive, ask the user which depth they want.
Use the strongest matching specialist agents:
- people-scout
- company-scout
- code-scout
- news-scout
- source-auditor
- synthesis-reviewer
Keep raw Exa results out of the main answer whenever delegated agents can compress them first.
Use web_search_advanced_exa when the query needs richer filters, highlights, or tighter control than web_search_exa.
Use web_fetch_exa on the most promising URLs before final synthesis when snippets are not enough.
If the answer would exceed one screen, write the full result set to exa-results/<topic>-<YYYY-MM-DD>.md and keep the in-chat answer compact.

Output

Return:

a compact answer that directly solves the user's request
citations with URLs
the main process or ranking note if it materially affects the answer

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

10d ago First seen · 41 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 47c2839e3344

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exa-deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository orchidautomation/pluxx (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 381 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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