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By Dianel555/DSkills (GitHub) · research · 65 stars · scanned at commit fa935e6
High-precision semantic search and content retrieval via Exa API. Use when: (1) Deep research requiring semantic understanding, (2) Code documentation and examples lookup, (3) Company/professional research, (4) AI-powered comprehensive research tasks, (5) URL content extraction with structured output. Triggers: "research", "find papers", "code examples", "company info", "LinkedIn profiles", "deep analysis". Differentiator: Exa excels at semantic/neural search while grok-search is better for rea…
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
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Runs commands on your computer
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Connects to the internet
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- skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/agent.py, line 171
except httpx.RequestError as exc: - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/agent.py, line 214
def _http_error_message(exc: httpx.HTTPStatusError, secret: str = "") -> str: - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/agent.py, line 245
except httpx.HTTPStatusError as exc: - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/agent.py, line 247
except httpx.RequestError as exc: - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/client.py, line 22
if isinstance(exc, (httpx.TimeoutException, httpx.NetworkError, httpx.ConnectError)): - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/client.py, line 24
if isinstance(exc, httpx.HTTPStatusError): - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/client.py, line 46
if isinstance(exc, httpx.HTTPStatusError) and exc.response.status_code == 429: - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/client.py, line 62
def _parse_retry_after(self, response: httpx.Response) -> float | None: - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/client.py, line 89
transport: httpx.AsyncBaseTransport | None = None, - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/client.py, line 97
self.timeout = httpx.Timeout(connect=15.0, read=60.0, write=15.0, pool=None) - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/client.py, line 104
self._client = httpx.AsyncClient(**client_args) - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/config_info.py, line 32
except httpx.HTTPStatusError as exc: - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/fetch.py, line 28
except httpx.HTTPStatusError as exc: - skills/exa/scripts/exa_cli/search.py, line 54
except httpx.HTTPStatusError as exc: - skills/exa/tests/test_agent.py, line 147
return httpx.Response(status, request=request, json={"error": "busy"}) - skills/exa/tests/test_agent.py, line 153
transport=httpx.MockTransport(handler), - skills/exa/tests/test_agent.py, line 157
with self.assertRaises(httpx.HTTPStatusError):
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'exa' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'exa' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named exa already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/Dianel555/DSkills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'fa935e64b3aa9ebb5fea7b9d65f4d00cf5fd0796' -- 'skills/exa' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/exa' ~/.agents/skills/'exa' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'exa' ~/.claude/skills/'exa' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-07 | fa935e6 | 77 |