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Web toolkit powered by Exa, tuned for scientific and technical content.
Passed 18 of 21 test cases with the skill, and 5 of 21 without it.
and 15 more in the full report
15 fixed6 passed either way3 still failing0 broke
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One of 15 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
I want to run the provided `scripts/exa_search.py` script without manually creating a Python virtual environment or running pip install commands first. What is the recommended single command line to execute it directly with its inline dependencies?
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| The execution command uses uv run --with exa-py. | Missed | Passed |
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A skill for web-powered research tasks backed by Exa: 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.
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 |
--category "research paper" to bias toward scholarly sources, and/or an academic --include-domains allowlist. See references/web-search.md for the two-pass academic strategy.For technical or scientific queries, prefer academic and scientific sources:
Two levers to steer Exa toward scholarly content:
--category "research paper" biases retrieval toward scholarly sources.--include-domains with a scholarly allowlist (arxiv.org, nature.com, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, etc.) restricts the domain pool.Combine both for strictly academic results. See references/web-search.md for the full pattern.
When citing academic sources, include author names and publication year where available (e.g., Smith et al., 2025) in addition to the standard citation format. If a DOI is present, prefer the DOI link.
This skill uses the exa-py Python SDK. The scripts in scripts/ declare their dependencies via PEP 723 inline metadata, so you can run them directly with uv run without a separate install step:
test cases passed, vs 5 / 21 without
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