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Exa Neural Search

Lets your agent search the web, code docs, companies and people via Exa's search engine.

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Repository
affaan-m/ECC
Stars
295,127
Licence
MIT
Files
2 files

What it does

Once installed, the agent can run searches through Exa, an AI-powered search service, instead of relying only on its built-in knowledge. It can find current news and web pages, pull code examples and API docs, look up company background and people profiles, and read full web pages from a URL. It can also start a longer background research job and check back for the results.

Great for

  • Developers who want up-to-date code examples and API documentation while coding
  • Analysts or founders doing competitor and company due diligence
  • People who need recent news or web facts the agent may not know about

Skip it if

  • Tasks that need no live information, since every search is a paid external call and adds latency (reason: unnecessary cost and delay)
  • Looking up private individuals or sensitive personal data, since the people search tool returns public professional profiles that could be misused (reason: privacy risk)
  • Anyone who cannot set up an Exa account and API key, since the skill does not work without them (reason: requires a paid external service)

Try asking

  • “Search the web for the latest AI developments in 2026 and summarise the top five results”
  • “Find Python asyncio patterns with code examples from GitHub and Stack Overflow”
  • “Give me company research on Vercel including recent funding news”
  • “Start a deep research job on WebAssembly component model adoption and report back when it finishes”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Exa Neural SearchInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 2 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    exa-search.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip exa-search.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip exa-search.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Set up the MCP server in ~/.claude.json first, and keep the API key out of shared or public config files
  • Use web_search_advanced_exa with includeDomains or date filters to get more precise results
  • Lower tokensNum for focused code snippets and raise it for broader context

What's inside

  • agents/openai.yaml
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from affaan-m/ECC under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.