Exa web search free
Skill S3YED/appie-kit/skills/knowledge/research/exa-web-search-free
Free AI search via Exa MCP. Web search for news/info, code search for docs/examples from GitHub/StackOverflow, company research for business intel. No API key needed.From its SKILL.md
npx -y skills add S3YED/appie-kit --skill exa-web-search-freeAssembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.
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SKILL.md
2.4 KB, 618 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it
Exa Web Search (Free)
Neural search for web, code, and company research. No API key required.
Setup
Verify mcporter is configured:
mcporter list exa
If not listed:
mcporter config add exa https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp
Core Tools
web_search_exa
Search web for current info, news, or facts.
mcporter call 'exa.web_search_exa(query: "latest AI news 2026", numResults: 5)'
Parameters:
query- Search querynumResults(optional, default: 8)type(optional) -"auto","fast", or"deep"
get_code_context_exa
Find code examples and docs from GitHub, Stack Overflow.
mcporter call 'exa.get_code_context_exa(query: "React hooks examples", tokensNum: 3000)'
Parameters:
query- Code/API search querytokensNum(optional, default: 5000) - Range: 1000-50000
company_research_exa
Research companies for business info and news.
mcporter call 'exa.company_research_exa(companyName: "Anthropic", numResults: 3)'
Parameters:
companyName- Company namenumResults(optional, default: 5)
Advanced Tools (Optional)
Six additional tools available by updating config URL:
web_search_advanced_exa- Domain/date filtersdeep_search_exa- Query expansioncrawling_exa- Full page extractionpeople_search_exa- Professional profilesdeep_researcher_start/check- AI research agent
Enable all tools:
mcporter config add exa-full "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp?tools=web_search_exa,web_search_advanced_exa,get_code_context_exa,deep_search_exa,crawling_exa,company_research_exa,people_search_exa,deep_researcher_start,deep_researcher_check"
# Then use:
mcporter call 'exa-full.deep_search_exa(query: "AI safety research")'
Tips
- Web: Use
type: "fast"for quick lookup,"deep"for thorough research - Code: Lower
tokensNum(1000-2000) for focused, higher (5000+) for comprehensive - See examples.md for more patterns
Resources
What ships with it: 3 files
4.9 KB alongside SKILL.md
.clawhub/
- origin.json151 B
references/
- examples.md4.6 KB
- _meta.json138 B
Gives 2 of the 12 instructions most web research skills give in 618 tokens
Counted across 292 of the 300 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06
- Use web_search_exa for current information and broad discoveryhere, and in 22 of 292, across 8 files
- Cite every claim with a sourcein 21 of 292, across 18 files
- Configure the Exa MCP server with an API keyin 18 of 292, across 5 files
- Use get_code_context_exa for code examples and API docshere, and in 16 of 292, across 6 files
- Verify exact tool names before depending on themin 13 of 292, across 4 files
- Narrow results with site:, quoted phrase, and intitle: operatorsin 13 of 292, across 4 files
- Adjust tokensNum lower for snippets, higher for full contextin 13 of 292, across 4 files
- Break the topic into 3-5 research sub-questionsin 13 of 292
- Confirm current Exa docs and exposed tool surface before usein 11 of 292, across 2 files
- Get user confirmation after Phase 1in 10 of 292, across 9 files
- Prefer primary sources when availablein 10 of 292
- Verify extracted metadata against original sourcesin 9 of 292, across 5 files
Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.