exa-search

name: exa-search description: Use Exa Search API via exa_search for high-signal web retrieval and citation-ready summaries. metadata: { "openclaw": { "emoji": "🔎", "homepage": "https://exa.ai" } }

Exa Search (Skill)

Use the exa_search tool to retrieve high-signal sources from the public web, then write a concise, citation-ready answer.

When to Activate

Activate when the user:

• Asks for research, sources, citations, or “search online”
• Wants high-signal / less SEO search results
• Uses a prompt starting with /exa (treat the rest as the query)

How to Use

1. Turn the user request into a tight search query (include key entities + constraints).
2. Call exa_search with includeHighlights: true (default) to get snippets.
3. If deeper reading is needed, set includeText: true and keep textMaxCharacters small.
4. Summarize findings and cite each claim with the URL(s) returned by Exa.

Recommended Defaults

• numResults: 5–10
• includeHighlights: true
• includeText: false (turn on only when needed)
• includeSummary: false (turn on when you want Exa to draft per-URL summaries)

Notes / Failure Modes

• If the tool errors with “Missing Exa API key”, stop and ask the user to configure host env and restart. Do not read/write .env, do not restart gateway, and do not kill processes from this skill flow. In this repo, the key is expected in config/.env and restart is a user/host operation.
• If results are off-topic, tighten the query and/or use includeDomains / excludeDomains.