exa-search

1# Exa Web Toolkit
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3A 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.
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5## Routing — pick the right capability
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7Read the user's request and match it to one of the capabilities below. Read the corresponding reference file for detailed instructions before running commands.
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9| User wants to... | Capability | Where |
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11| Look something up, research a topic, find current info | **Web Search** | `references/web-search.md` |
12| Fetch content from a specific URL (webpage, article, PDF) | **Web Extract** | `references/web-extract.md` |
13| Install or authenticate | **Setup** | Below |
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15### Decision guide
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17- **Default to Web Search** for topic lookups, research questions, or "what is X?" queries. When the topic is scientific or technical, pass `--category publication` to bias toward scholarly sources, and/or an academic `--include-domains` allowlist. See `references/web-search.md` for the two-pass academic strategy.
18- **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.
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20### Academic source priority
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22For technical or scientific queries, prefer academic and scientific sources:
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