pp-exa SKILL.md skillA
pp-exa from mvanhorn/printing-press-library is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mvanhorn/printing-press-library/pp-exa@git:20260817.d5a007cPins git:20260817.d5a007c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mvanhorn/printing-press-library
- Path
cli-skills/pp-exa/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260817.d5a007c, committed Aug 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 13, 2026
- Size
- 29,911 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,075
- License
- none declared
Every Exa search API feature, plus local history, spend tracking, and diffing no other Exa tool has. Trigger phrases: `search the web for`, `get the latest news on`, `answer this question with sources`, `find similar pages`, `monitor this topic`, `exa search`, `run exa`.
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
<!-- GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT.
This file is a verbatim mirror of library/ai/exa/SKILL.md,
regenerated post-merge by tools/generate-skills/. Hand-edits here are
silently overwritten on the next regen. Edit the library/ source instead.
See the repository agent guide, section "Generated artifacts: registry.json, cli-skills/". -->
# Exa — Printing Press CLI
## Prerequisites: Install the CLI
This skill drives the `exa-pp-cli` binary. **You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill.** If it is missing, install it first:
1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to `$HOME/.local/bin` on macOS/Linux and `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin` on Windows:
```bash
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install exa --cli-only
```
2. Verify: `exa-pp-cli --version`
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on `$PATH` for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.
If the `npx` install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into `$GOPATH/bin` (default `$HOME/go/bin`), so add that directory to `$PATH` instead:
```bash
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mvanhorn/printing-press-library/pp-exa@sha256:13b21d6d9ec2ea1eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260817.d5a007c, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_gyt5uiqas64bfwwo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 13, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260817.d5a007c latest | 2026-08-17 | d5a007c | 29,911 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.02dd8b8 | 2026-08-13 | 02dd8b8 | 29,911 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 (29911 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
mvanhorn/printing-press-library · 2,075 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gyt5uiqas64bfwwo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mvanhorn/printing-press-library/pp-exa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/13b21d6d9ec2ea1ed409acb9c8476bb906775830a44d7706f9fa953416041b41
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