exa-search SKILL.md skillA
exa-search from openminis/minisskills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add openminis/minisskills/exa-search@git:20260409.c75add8Pins git:20260409.c75add8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- openminis/minisskills
- Path
exa-search/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260409.c75add8, committed Apr 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 7, 2026
- Size
- 2,411 bytes
- Repository stars
- 584
- License
- MIT
Search the web, read webpages as markdown, and run filtered web retrieval with Exa MCP. Use this skill whenever the user asks for current web information, web research, domain/date/category-filtered search, company or people lookup via search filters, or extracting clean page content from one or more URLs.
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 Search
Use this skill for Exa MCP web retrieval.
## When to Use
- Current web search
- Web research that needs clean LLM-ready results
- Domain, date, and category filtered search
- Company or people lookup through search filters
- Read full page content from known URLs as markdown
## Preferred Tools
- `web_search_exa`: default search tool
- `web_fetch_exa`: fetch one or more URLs as markdown
- `web_search_advanced_exa`: use only when filters or advanced options are needed
## Workflow
1. Run `list_tools` to confirm what the current server exposes.
2. For most tasks, start with `web_search_exa`.
3. If the user already has URLs, or search results need full content, use `web_fetch_exa`.
4. Use `web_search_advanced_exa` only when the task needs filters such as domains, categories, dates, highlights, summaries, or subpage crawling.
5. Prefer the current tools above as the main operating path.
## Commands
```bash
# Inspect current MCP tools
python3 /var/minis/skills/exa-search/scripts/query.py list_tools
# General search
python3 /var/minis/skills/exa-search/scripts/query.py call_tool web_search_exa '{"query":"latest changes in Exa MCP docs","numResults":5}'
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add openminis/minisskills/exa-search@sha256:b088abbf2d7d5ef5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260409.c75add8, 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_uyg4zfnjfjyhi6lv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Mar 7, 2026 and Apr 9, 2026, about one every 34 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260409.c75add8 latest | 2026-04-09 | c75add8 | 2,411 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260307.9e17ff6 | 2026-03-07 | 9e17ff6 | 3,213 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 (2411 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
openminis/minisskills · 584 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uyg4zfnjfjyhi6lv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=openminis/minisskills/exa-search GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b088abbf2d7d5ef554790f30723aac434fda749fb16afea59d8701971a244b28
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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