exa-search
Exa search API key.
Install / Use
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill exa-searchInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Education & ResearchSupported Platforms
Our assessment of exa-search
exa-search scores 78/100 on our quality scale, 48th of 79 Education & Research skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 46,441 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 3 days ago, so exa-search is actively maintained.
- It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 95/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
exa-search compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than exa-search; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| exa-search (this skill)by K-Dense-AI | 78 | 46.4k | 3d ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 85.3k | 9d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 73.7k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| last30days-skillby mvanhorn | 100 | 62.8k | 1d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| Scraplingby D4Vinci | 100 | 83.4k | today | MCP Server |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install exa-search?
- Run
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill exa-search. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does exa-search work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is exa-search safe to use?
- It is MIT-licensed and scores 95/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is exa-search still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 3 days ago, so exa-search is actively maintained.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.