exa-efficiency

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By jpcaparas/skills (GitHub) · research · 57 stars · scanned at commit e1b479a

Uses Exa (exa.ai) Search, Contents, Answer, Agent, Monitors and MCP at the lowest sensible cost. Use to search, fetch or research with Exa, run Exa Agent or monitors, estimate or cut Exa spend, or investigate an Exa bill. Not for other search providers.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this.

Found in 1 place.

skills/research/exa-efficiency/SKILL.md, line 23python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/exa_cost.py estimate agent/runs body.json --budget-usd 1

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a research skill.

Found in 12 places.

skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 35curl -sS -X POST "$E/search" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{
skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 52curl -sS -X POST "$E/contents" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{
skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 66curl -sS -X POST "$E/answer" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" \

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skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 76curl -sS -X POST "$E/search" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{
skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 90curl -sS -X POST "$E/search" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{
skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 105curl -sS -X POST "$E/search" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" \
skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 124curl -sS -X POST "$E/agent/runs" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d @run.json > created.json
skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 127sleep 3; curl -sS "$E/agent/runs/$RUN" -H "$AUTH" > run-status.json # polling is free
skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 143curl -sS -X POST "$E/monitors" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d @monitor.json > monitor-created.json
skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 145curl -sS -X POST "$E/monitors/$MON/trigger" -H "$AUTH" # one paid run
skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 146curl -sS "$E/monitors/$MON/runs" -H "$AUTH" | jq '.data[0]' # output, no cost field
skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 147curl -sS -X DELETE "$E/monitors/$MON" -H "$AUTH" # stops billing; irreversible

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 1 place.

skills/research/exa-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 155from exa_py import Exa # pip install exa-py; reads EXA_API_KEY

Safer alternatives

Low-risk skills in the same category (research) that look related. Check that one does what you need.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'exa-efficiency' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'exa-efficiency' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named exa-efficiency already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/jpcaparas/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'e1b479afa6c172f6d5a6087b6e19d7c0580b8a4e' -- 'skills/research/exa-efficiency' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/research/exa-efficiency' ~/.agents/skills/'exa-efficiency' && 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-efficiency' ~/.claude/skills/'exa-efficiency' (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
2026-11-13	`e1b479a`	75
2026-11-07	`c95f32e`	95