exa-search
SKILL.md
exa-search skill
Use this skill to search the web, find similar pages, or fetch page contents via the Exa AI search engine — fast, neural, and certificate-aware.
The skill invokes a native Rust binary (bin/exa-search) via Bash. Run install.sh once to build it.
When to Use / When NOT to Use
✅ USE when:
- Searching the web for articles, documentation, repos, papers, tools, people, companies
- Finding recent news or announcements (use
livecrawl: "fallback"or"always"for recency) - Fetching full text of a known URL without browser automation
- Finding pages similar to a reference URL (competitor analysis, alternative tools)
- Any web lookup that isn't a specific tweet or video
❌ NOT FOR:
- Fetching tweets/X posts → use
fxtwitterskill (Exa can't fetch tweet URLs)