exa-skills

General-purpose web search powered by Exa — the search_web / web_search analog. Use for any open-ended lookup, fact-finding, or 'search the web for X' when no specialized skill fits. Semantic (meaning-based) search over the whole index; runs a local script against the Exa API, no MCP server required.

Foundation for the Exa skill collection — how to call Exa (search, contents, answer, similar) from a local script with just an EXA_API_KEY, how to write good semantic queries, and how to orchestrate subagents for deep research. Read this first; the use-case skills (company, people, papers, code, news, finance, personal sites, X) build on it.

Find code with Exa — API usage examples, error fixes, library docs, and GitHub repositories. Use when you need a working code snippet, to resolve an error, find an open-source implementation, or pull up official docs for a language/framework. Runs a local script against the Exa API; no MCP server required.

Research companies with Exa semantic search — find competitors, funding, headcount, news, and build company lists. Use for competitor analysis, market mapping, sourcing companies by category/stage/geo, or 'find companies like X'. Runs a local script against the Exa API; no MCP server required.

Find financial filings with Exa — SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, S-1), earnings reports, and annual reports. Use to pull a company's financials, compare results across periods, or locate a specific filing. Runs a local script against the Exa API; no MCP server required.

Build prospect lists with Exa — find target companies matching an ICP, then their decision-makers, then enrich with signals. Use for outbound sales lists, account mapping, and B2B prospecting. Multi-pass orchestration over the Exa API; no MCP server required.

Find people with Exa semantic search — by role, company, and location, LinkedIn-weighted. Use to map a company's team, find experts/decision-makers, locate a specific person, or build people lists. Runs a local script against the Exa API; no MCP server required.

Find personal websites with Exa — blogs, portfolios, and homepages. Use to find a person's own writing (not press about them), discover practitioners who blog, or surface indie/portfolio sites. Runs a local script against the Exa API; no MCP server required.

Find academic papers with Exa — by topic, author, recency, or as surveys/reviews. Use for literature reviews, finding seminal or state-of-the-art papers, tracking recent preprints (arXiv), or building a reading list. Runs a local script against the Exa API; no MCP server required.

Search X/Twitter posts with Exa, filtered to x.com/twitter.com. Use for finding tweets or threads on a topic. NOTE: Exa's X coverage is limited (the tweet category was retired and X blocks crawlers), so results are often sparse — the skill is honest about this and suggests fallbacks. Runs a local script against the Exa API; no MCP server required.