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 sasakiblog26-lgtm/exa-mcp-server --skill research-paper-searchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sasakiblog26-lgtm/exa-mcp-serverWrote 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/sasakiblog26-lgtm/exa-mcp-server/research-paper-search)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sasakiblog26-lgtm/exa-mcp-server/research-paper-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sasakiblog26-lgtm/exa-mcp-server/research-paper-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/sasakiblog26-lgtm/exa-mcp-server/research-paper-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sasakiblog26-lgtm/exa-mcp-server/research-paper-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00048 | $0.00691 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00345 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00138 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00069 |
Grade A, and why
web-search-advanced-research-paper 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 12d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- web-search-advanced-research-paper — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Web Search Advanced - Research Paper Category
Tool Restriction (Critical)
ONLY use web_search_advanced_exa with category: "research paper". Do NOT use other categories or tools.
Full Filter Support
The research paper category supports ALL available parameters:
Core
query(required)numResultstype("auto", "fast", "deep", "neural")
Domain filtering
includeDomains(e.g., ["arxiv.org", "openreview.net"])excludeDomains
Date filtering (ISO 8601)
startPublishedDate/endPublishedDatestartCrawlDate/endCrawlDate
Text filtering
includeText(must contain ALL)excludeText(exclude if ANY match)
Array size restriction: includeText and excludeText only support single-item arrays. Multi-item arrays (2+ items) cause 400 errors. To match multiple terms, put them in the query string or run separate searches.
Content extraction
textMaxCharacters/contextMaxCharactersenableSummary/summaryQueryenableHighlights/highlightsNumSentences/highlightsPerUrl/highlightsQuery
Additional
userLocationmoderationadditionalQueriesmaxAgeHours/livecrawlTimeoutsubpages/subpageTarget
Token Isolation (Critical)
Never run Exa searches in main context. Always spawn Task agents:
- Agent calls
web_search_advanced_exawithcategory: "research paper" - Agent merges + deduplicates results before presenting
- Agent returns distilled output (brief markdown or compact JSON)
- Main context stays clean regardless of search volume
When to Use
Use this category when you need:
- Academic papers from arXiv, OpenReview, PubMed, etc.
- Scientific research on specific topics
- Literature reviews with date filtering
- Papers containing specific methodologies or terms
Examples
Recent papers on a topic:
web_search_advanced_exa {
"query": "transformer attention mechanisms efficiency",
"category": "research paper",
"startPublishedDate": "2024-01-01",
"numResults": 15,
"type": "auto"
}
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 95 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 2c564e150482
web-search-advanced-research-paper is a skill published in the GitHub repository sasakiblog26-lgtm/exa-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 691 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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