exa-search SKILL.md skillA
exa-search from k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/exa-search@v1.4Pins v1.4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills
- Path
skills/exa-search/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- v1.4, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 11, 2026
- Size
- 6,370 bytes
- Repository stars
- 53,159
- License
- MIT
Searches scientific and technical web content with Exa and extracts page or PDF text from URLs in batches. Supports scholarly discovery with the publication category and academic domain filters. Applies to requests to search the web, look up current research, fetch a page, or extract an article using 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
# Exa Web Toolkit A skill for web-powered research tasks backed by [Exa](https://exa.ai): web search and URL extraction. Exa's index combines high-quality keyword and semantic retrieval, which makes it well-suited to scientific, technical, and conceptual queries. ## Routing — pick the right capability Read the user's request and match it to one of the capabilities below. Read the corresponding reference file for detailed instructions before running commands. | User wants to... | Capability | Where | |---|---|---| | Look something up, research a topic, find current info | **Web Search** | `references/web-search.md` | | Fetch content from a specific URL (webpage, article, PDF) | **Web Extract** | `references/web-extract.md` | | Install or authenticate | **Setup** | Below | ### Decision guide - **Default to Web Search** for topic lookups, research questions, or "what is X?" queries. When the topic is scientific or technical, pass `--category publication` to bias toward scholarly sources, and/or an academic `--include-domains` allowlist. See `references/web-search.md` for the two-pass academic strategy. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/exa-search@sha256:8cdedf5648783a20The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.4, 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_rwrktnxawmtkmgl7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jun 11, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 19 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.4 latest | 2026-10-01 | a92663a | 6,370 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.3 | 2026-09-30 | ce9e6e9 | 5,779 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-07-31 | 4226ca8 | 5,051 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-07-31 | bd99c01 | 5,051 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-07-26 | b085e11 | 5,087 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.c1150bd | 2026-06-11 | c1150bd | 5,227 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.1b8fae3 | 2026-06-11 | 1b8fae3 | 5,098 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 (6370 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
k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills · 53,159 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rwrktnxawmtkmgl7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/exa-search GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8cdedf5648783a209593ff91024f43bd8d8e066b03f0a72a6cf36d90e1650204
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