> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://kalarislabs.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# exa-search — AI agent skill for literature review

> Web toolkit powered by Exa, tuned for scientific and technical content.

# `exa-search`

> Web toolkit powered by Exa, tuned for scientific and technical content. Use this skill when the user needs to search the web or fetch/extract URL content. Covers: web search (semantic lookups, research, current info — with optional research-paper category and academic domain filtering) and URL extraction (fetching pages, articles, academic PDFs in batch). Use this skill for web-related tasks when the user wants high-quality search or scholarly filtering via category=research paper. Triggers on requests to search, look up, fetch a page, or extract an article.

**Category:** [literature-review](/skills#literature-review) · **License:** MIT · **Version:** 1.2

## Install

```bash theme={null}
npx research-agent-skills install exa-search
npx skills add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills --skill exa-search
```

## When to use it

Web toolkit powered by Exa, tuned for scientific and technical content. Use this skill when the user needs to search the web or fetch/extract URL content. Covers: web search (semantic lookups, research, current info — with optional research-paper category and academic domain filtering) and URL extraction (fetching pages, articles, academic PDFs in batch). Use this skill for web-related tasks when the user wants high-quality search or scholarly filtering via category=research paper. Triggers on requests to search, look up, fetch a page, or extract an article.

## Full playbook

Read [SKILL.md](https://github.com/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills/blob/main/skills/exa-search/SKILL.md) for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.