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Personal Site Search (Exa) · codealive-ai | DecimalAI

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Personal Site Search (Exa)

codealive-ai/exa-personal-site-search

Source codealive-ai/exa-skills ↗License NOASSERTION

Find personal websites with Exa — blogs, portfolios, and homepages. Use to find a person's own writing (not press about them), discover practitioners who blog, or surface indie/portfolio sites. Runs a local script against the Exa API; no MCP server required.

SkillScore73Maintained

Automatic

Research pack

Last verified 8/4/2026

What it changes

Passed 14 of 19 test cases with the skill, and 3 of 19 without it.

Without skill18%

With skill73%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Identifies personal site as the default category.
Specifies setting the EXA_API_KEY environment variable.
Uses the -c "news" flag with scripts/personal_site_search.py.

and 9 more in the full report

12 fixed4 passed either way6 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +55 pp
Tokens: -23%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -59%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/4/2026v116 of 22 cases passed with skill · 19 comparable

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/codealive-ai-exa-personal-site-search/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/codealive-ai-exa-personal-site-search/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add codealive-ai-exa-personal-site-search, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/codealive-ai-exa-personal-site-search/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add codealive-ai-exa-personal-site-search

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/codealive-ai-exa-personal-site-search/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/codealive-ai-exa-personal-site-search/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/codealive-ai-exa-personal-site-search/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/codealive-ai-exa-personal-site-search.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 12 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 12

Prompt

Instead of personal homepages, I want to query Exa specifically for professional LinkedIn profiles of AI research directors. Which command-line option overrides the target index category to professional profiles?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Uses the -c "linkedin profile" flag with scripts/personal_site_search.py.	Missed	Passed

case-05 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/4/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md57 lines2 filesincludes scripts

Personal Site Search (Exa)

Find personal blogs, portfolios, and homepages via Exa's personal-site index — a person's own voice rather than coverage of them. Calls the Exa REST API through a local script; no MCP server needed, only an EXA_API_KEY.

Setup (once)

export EXA_API_KEY=your-key            # or EXA_API_KEY=... in a .env at the repo root

Get a key at https://dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys. Shared details: exa-native-base.

Run it

python scripts/personal_site_search.py "<who / what they write about>" [-n N] [--text]

Examples:

python scripts/personal_site_search.py "machine learning engineer personal blog" -n 10
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "indie hacker building in public portfolio" -n 12
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "Andrej Karpathy personal site essays" -n 5

Defaults to category=personal site.

Query patterns

# Practitioners who write about a topic
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "category:personal site distributed systems engineer blog" -n 12

# A specific person's own site
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "category:personal site <name> blog essays projects" -n 5

# Portfolios in a discipline
python scripts/personal_site_search.py "category:personal site product designer portfolio case studies" -n 12

Hidden relationships & terminology

Track record

Benchmark

14 / 19

test cases passed, vs 3 / 19 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/1/2026

View 15 scanner checks

live_secretremote_code_executionreverse_shelldata_exfiltrationssrf_metadataagent_snoopinganti_refusaldestructive_commandsobfuscated_unicodeunicode_homoglyphopaque_blobsuspicious_urltool_overreachtrigger_abuseprompt_injection_phrasing

IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

codealive-ai / exa-skills

exa-personal-site-search/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License MITImported 8/1/2026Version v1Bundled 1 file · scripts

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What's inside

Personal Site Search (Exa)

Setup (once)

Run it

Query patterns

Hidden relationships & terminology

Track record

Benchmark

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