Exa search

Skill vivekkhimani/gtm-tools-template/.agents/skills/exa-search

Neural search via Exa MCP for web, code, and company research. Use when the user needs web search, code examples, company intel, people lookup, or AI-powered deep research with Exa's neural search engine.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add vivekkhimani/gtm-tools-template --skill exa-search

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One thing to look at

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SKILL.md

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Exa Search

Drift-prone skill. Exa MCP tool names, parameters, and account limits can change. Confirm the exposed tool surface and current Exa docs before relying on a specific search mode, category, or livecrawl behavior.

Neural search for web content, code, companies, and people via the Exa MCP server.

When to Activate

User needs current web information or news
Searching for code examples, API docs, or technical references
Researching companies, competitors, or market players
Finding professional profiles or people in a domain
Running background research for any development task
User says "search for", "look up", "find", or "what's the latest on"

MCP Requirement

Exa MCP server must be configured. Add to ~/.claude.json:

"exa-web-search": {
  "command": "npx",
  "args": ["-y", "exa-mcp-server"],
  "env": { "EXA_API_KEY": "YOUR_EXA_API_KEY_HERE" }
}

Get an API key at exa.ai. This repo's current Exa setup documents the tool surface exposed here: web_search_exa and get_code_context_exa. If your Exa server exposes additional tools, verify their exact names before depending on them in docs or prompts.

Core Tools

web_search_exa

General web search for current information, news, or facts.

web_search_exa(query: "latest AI developments 2026", numResults: 5)

Parameters:

Param	Type	Default	Notes
`query`	string	required	Search query
`numResults`	number	8	Number of results
`type`	string	`auto`	Search mode
`livecrawl`	string	`fallback`	Prefer live crawling when needed
`category`	string	none	Optional focus such as `company` or `research paper`

get_code_context_exa

Find code examples and documentation from GitHub, Stack Overflow, and docs sites.

get_code_context_exa(query: "Python asyncio patterns", tokensNum: 3000)

Parameters:

Param	Type	Default	Notes
`query`	string	required	Code or API search query
`tokensNum`	number	5000	Content tokens (1000-50000)

Usage Patterns

Quick Lookup

web_search_exa(query: "Node.js 22 new features", numResults: 3)

Code Research

get_code_context_exa(query: "Rust error handling patterns Result type", tokensNum: 3000)

Company or People Research

web_search_exa(query: "Vercel funding valuation 2026", numResults: 3, category: "company")
web_search_exa(query: "site:linkedin.com/in AI safety researchers Anthropic", numResults: 5)

Technical Deep Dive

web_search_exa(query: "WebAssembly component model status and adoption", numResults: 5)
get_code_context_exa(query: "WebAssembly component model examples", tokensNum: 4000)

Tips

Use web_search_exa for current information, company lookups, and broad discovery
Use search operators like site:, quoted phrases, and intitle: to narrow results
Lower tokensNum (1000-2000) for focused code snippets, higher (5000+) for comprehensive context
Use get_code_context_exa when you need API usage or code examples rather than general web pages

Related Skills

deep-research — Full research workflow using firecrawl + exa together
market-research — Business-oriented research with decision frameworks

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.

Gives 7 of the 12 instructions most web research skills give in 859 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 keyhere, and in 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 themhere, and in 13 of 292, across 4 files
Narrow results with site:, quoted phrase, and intitle: operatorshere, and in 13 of 292, across 4 files
Adjust tokensNum lower for snippets, higher for full contexthere, and in 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 usehere, and in 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.