Exa Search

Exa Search is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by wanshuiyin in Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep.

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Install Exa Search

Copy Exa Search into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/tree/main/skills/exa-search ~/.claude/skills/exa-search

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/exa-search/SKILL.md in wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/exa-search
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Exa Search does

Exa Search searches the web via Exa's API and extracts content like highlights, full text, or summaries alongside results. Use it when you need broad web results beyond academic databases, find similar pages, or fetch content from known URLs.

Exa Search is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Exa Search comes from a repository tagged ai-research, ai-tools, aris, autonomous-agent and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Exa AI-Powered Web Search

Search query: $ARGUMENTS

Role & Positioning

Exa is the broad web search source with built-in content extraction:

Skill	Best for
`/arxiv`	Direct preprint search and PDF download
`/semantic-scholar`	Published venue papers (IEEE, ACM, Springer), citation counts
`/deepxiv`	Layered reading: search, brief, section map, section reads
`/exa-search`	Broad web search: blogs, docs, news, companies, research papers — with content extraction

Use Exa when you need results beyond academic databases, or when you want content (highlights, full text, summaries) extracted alongside search results.

Constants

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Exa Search provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/arxiv
/semantic-scholar
/deepxiv
/exa-search

Frequently asked about Exa Search

What else does wanshuiyin publish alongside Exa Search?
Exa Search is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ablation Planner, AlphaXiv and Analyze Results. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Exa Search does, and is maintained by wanshuiyin in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep page.
How does Exa Search compare to other Automation skills?
Exa Search ranks #139 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Exa Search against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.