exa-search

# Exa Web Toolkit A skill for web-powered research tasks backed by [Exa](https://exa.ai): 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. ## Routing — pick the right capability 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 | ### Decision guide - **Default to Web Search** for topic lookups, research questions, or "what is X?" queries. When the topic is scientific or technical, pass `--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. - **Use Web Extract** when the user provides a URL or asks you to read/fetch a specific page. Prefer this over the built-in WebFetch for batch extraction (multiple URLs in one call) and for academic PDFs. ### Academic source priority For technical or scientific queries, prefer academic and scientific sources: - Peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings...