Exa Skills — Development skill for Claude Code
Exa web search as standalone Agent Skills — no MCP server, just an EXA_API_KEY.
How to install Exa Skills
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open CodeAlive-AI/exa-skills and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Exa Skills does
Exa web search as standalone Agent Skills — no MCP server, just an EXA_API_KEY. Company, people, papers, code, finance, personal-site & X search + lead generation for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, and any SKILL.md agent.
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README
Exa Skills
**Agent Skills for [Exa](https://exa.ai) web search — without an MCP server.**
A collection of standalone [Agent Skills](https://www.anthropic.com/news/skills) that give any SKILL.md-compatible coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, …) first-class access to Exa's semantic search, content fetch, and answer APIs. Each skill calls the Exa REST API through a small, **zero-dependency Python script** — the only thing you need is an `EXA_API_KEY`.
Why not just the MCP server? MCP is great, but it adds a process to run, a connection to manage, and a tool surface to wire up. These skills need **nothing but Python 3.8+ and a key** — they're portable, inspectable, and work the same whether your agent supports MCP or not.
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The skills
| Skill | Use it for | Default category |
|---|---|---|
| exa-native-base | The foundation — query-writing, the shared client, subagent orchestration. Read first. | — |
| exa-web-search | General web search — the search_web analog. Start here for open-ended lookups. |
(any) |
| exa-company-research | Companies, competitors, funding, market maps | company |
| exa-people-research | People by role / company / location (LinkedIn-weighted) | linkedin profile |
| exa-lead-generation | Prospect lists: companies → decision-makers → enrichment | company |
| exa-research-paper-search | Academic papers, surveys, arXiv preprints | research paper |
| exa-code-context | Code examples, API usage, docs, GitHub repos, error fixes | (web) / github |
| **[exa-financial-report |
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