Use Case
Exa Search is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Use Exa (exa.ai) Search API to search the web and return structured results (title/url/snippet/text) via a local Node script. Trigger when the user asks to enable Exa search, configure Exa API key, or perform web search using Exa. This guide walks you through installing Exa Search, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Exa Search: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install exa-search
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to data & analytics to trigger Exa Search
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Exa Search with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Exa Search
Help me get started with Exa Search
What can Exa Search do for my data & analytics workflow?
Show me an example of using Exa Search
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install exa-searchOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install exa-searchβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/exa-search/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.