exa-research SKILL.md skillA
exa-research from blockrunai/blockrun-mcp is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add blockrunai/blockrun-mcp/exa-research@git:20260808.b00dcdbPins git:20260808.b00dcdb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- blockrunai/blockrun-mcp
- Path
skills/exa-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260808.b00dcdb, committed Aug 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 2, 2026
- Size
- 6,289 bytes
- Repository stars
- 391
- License
- MIT
Use when researching products, finding academic papers, discovering competitors, reading webpage content, or getting cited answers grounded in real web sources. Use over generic search when semantic relevance matters.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Exa Research
Neural web search via BlockRun. Understands meaning, not keywords. Four distinct actions for different research modes.
## How to Call from MCP
As of v0.14.1 the `blockrun_exa` tool is path-based. Pass the endpoint name as `path` and the request as `body`:
```ts
blockrun_exa({ path: "search", body: { query: "AI agent frameworks 2026", numResults: 10 } })
blockrun_exa({ path: "answer", body: { query: "What is speculative decoding?" } })
blockrun_exa({ path: "contents", body: { urls: ["https://example.com/a", "https://example.com/b"] } })
blockrun_exa({ path: "find-similar", body: { url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12345", numResults: 5 } })
```
## Quick Decision Table
Costs below are what you are actually CHARGED — the $0.001 transaction fee is
already included (it applies once per call, not per result).
| User wants... | Path | Body | Cost |
|--------------|------|------|------|
| Relevant URLs on a topic | `search` | `{ query, numResults?, category? }` | $0.0110/call |
| Cited answer to a question | `answer` | `{ query }` | $0.0110/call |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add blockrunai/blockrun-mcp/exa-research@sha256:b2b521c9b4fbf1ffThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260808.b00dcdb, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 2, 2026 and Aug 8, 2026, about one every 25 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260808.b00dcdb latest | 2026-08-08 | b00dcdb | 6,289 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.2985b23 | 2026-07-16 | 2985b23 | 6,289 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.c27ff7a | 2026-07-05 | c27ff7a | 5,872 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260517.434068c | 2026-05-17 | 434068c | 5,884 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260502.63d37e3 | 2026-05-02 | 63d37e3 | 5,075 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6289 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
blockrunai/blockrun-mcp · 391 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_e22g6c55c6lyh52m GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=blockrunai/blockrun-mcp/exa-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b2b521c9b4fbf1ff033e81db2117bd995d2aba2c95b198abe1b5e91bc031181d
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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