exa-search SKILL.md skillA
exa-search from tdimino/claude-code-minoan is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tdimino/claude-code-minoan/exa-search@git:20261019.913180aPins git:20261019.913180a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tdimino/claude-code-minoan
- Path
skills/research/exa-search/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261019.913180a, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 18, 2026
- Size
- 8,396 bytes
- Repository stars
- 41
- License
- MIT
Searches the web through Exa 3.0 with six Python scripts—lite/auto/deep search with category, domain, and date filters, Dynamic Highlights, structured output with field-level citations, clean extraction from known URLs, cited answers, and the async Agent API for list building, enrichment, and multi-hop research. This skill should be used for any web search, fact lookup, current events, finding papers, companies, people, or news, reading known URLs, questions that need cited answers, building…
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 Six scripts over Exa 3.0 (API spec 2.0.0, synced 2026-10-19). `S=~/.claude/skills/exa-search/scripts`. **Prerequisite:** `EXA_API_KEY` (https://dashboard.exa.ai). ## Pick the Script | Task | Command | |---|---| | Quick lookup, cheapest | `python3 $S/exa_search.py "query" --lite --highlights --no-text` | | General web search | `python3 $S/exa_search.py "query" --highlights --no-text` | | Papers / companies / people / news | `... exa_search.py "query" --category publication` (or `company`, `people`, `news`) | | Read known URLs | `python3 $S/exa_contents.py URL1 URL2 --highlights --no-text` | | Cited answer | `python3 $S/exa_research.py "question" --sources` | | Cited answer from specific sites/dates | `... exa_research.py "question" --domains a.org --after 2026-01-01` (routes to /search) | | One synthesized answer or JSON from a search | `... exa_search.py "question" --text-output "Short answer"` / `--schema-preset company` | | Multi-step research, lists, enrichment | `python3 $S/exa_agent.py run "task" --effort medium` (see `references/agent-api.md`) | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tdimino/claude-code-minoan/exa-search@sha256:0115926fbabf1dd8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.913180a, 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 7 versions of this file, between Feb 18, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 41 days.
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| git:20261019.913180a latest | 2026-10-19 | 913180a | 8,396 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.6849eaf | 2026-10-19 | 6849eaf | 8,148 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260427.a3e615e | 2026-04-27 | a3e615e | 9,999 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260416.4e43d41 | 2026-04-16 | 4e43d41 | 10,000 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260304.c90a8c7 | 2026-03-04 | c90a8c7 | 10,108 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260223.67e9696 | 2026-02-23 | 67e9696 | 8,840 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260218.9a9ef9b | 2026-02-18 | 9a9ef9b | 8,840 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 (8396 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
tdimino/claude-code-minoan · 41 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vvgaweyr4wfzekug GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tdimino/claude-code-minoan/exa-search GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0115926fbabf1dd8a09668ae3a86e65b3c62e0355a55ba7e4ec774f979414e3b
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