Exa web search (CLI)

--- name: "cli-anything-exa" description: >- Agent-native CLI for Exa web search and content retrieval workflows. --- # Exa CLI Skill ## Identity - Name: cli-anything-exa - Version: 1.0.0 - Category: search - Entry Point: cli-anything-exa ## What This CLI Does Provides an agent-native command-line interface to the Exa API : a neural search engine optimised for AI agent workflows. Supports web search across multiple modes (fast, deep, deep-reasoning) and fetching full-text or highlighted page contents. ## Prerequisites - Python >= 3.10 - pip install cli-anything-exa - export EXA_API_KEY="your-api-key" (get one at https://dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys) ## Installation ``bash pip install git+https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git#subdirectory=exa/agent-harness ` ## Command Reference ### search : Web search `bash cli-anything-exa search "<query>" [OPTIONS] Options: --type auto|fast|instant|deep|deep-reasoning (default: auto) --num-results / -n 1:100 (default: 10) --category company|people|research-paper|news|personal-site|financial-report --content highlights|text|summary|none (default: highlights) --freshness smart|always|never (default: smart) --include-domains DOMAIN (repeatable) --exclude-domains DOMAIN (repeatable) --from DATE ISO 8601 start published date --to DATE ISO 8601 end published date --location CC Two-letter country code for geo-bias ` ### contents : Fetch page contents `bash cli-anything-exa contents <url> [url ...] [--content text|highlights|summary] [--freshness smart|always|never] ` ### server status : Verify API key and connectivity `bash cli-anything-exa server status ` ## JSON Output All commands support --json at the root level for machine-readable output: `bash cli-anything-exa --json search "latest LLM papers" --num-results 5 ` ## Common Agent Patterns ### Fast keyword lookup `bash cli-anything-exa --json search "site:arxiv.org transformer architectures" --type fast --content highlights ` ### Deep research on a topic `bash cli-anything-exa --json search "EU AI Act compliance requirements 2024" --type deep --content text ` ### Academic paper discovery `bash cli-anything-exa --json search "retrieval augmented generation" --category research-paper --num-results 20 ` ### Company intelligence `bash cli-anything-exa --json search "Anthropic funding history" --category company ` ### News monitoring `bash cli-anything-exa --json search "AI regulation news" --category news --from 2024-01-01 ` ### Fetch full content for summarisation `bash cli-anything-exa --json contents https://example.com/article --content text ` ## Interactive REPL `bash cli-anything-exa # No subcommand → enters REPL ` Type commands without the cli-anything-exa prefix. Type exit or quit to leave. ## Notes - highlights content mode is 10× more token-efficient than text : prefer it for agent pipelines - --type deep triggers multi-step reasoning; slower but synthesises across many sources - --category company and --category people do not support date or domain-exclude filters - Cost per query is included in JSON output under cost_dollars`