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About exa-search

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exa-search

Searches scientific and technical web content

exa-search is an agent skill for web-based research with Exa, which combines keyword and semantic search. It covers two capabilities: web search, for looking up a topic, researching a question or finding current information, and web extraction, which pulls the text of a page or PDF from one or several URLs at once. For scientific and technical questions, the skill can bias results toward scholarly sources with a publication category option and an allowlist of academic domains, and it describes a two-pass academic search strategy. The skill tells the agent to read the matching reference file before it runs a command, and to route each request to the right capability. It prefers its extraction capability over a built-in fetch for batches and for academic PDFs. It also includes setup and authentication steps for the Exa service. Use it when you need to find or read current scientific and technical web content. It is part of the k-dense-ai scientific agent skills repository on GitHub, which has about 49,600 stars. The listing shows it as free, and it has about 1,600 installs. Its security audits show passes from Gen Agent Trust Hub and Socket, with a warning from Snyk.

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Price
Free
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k-dense-ai
Category
AI Skills
Website
github.com/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/exa-search