Agent skill · mvanhorn
pp-exa
Every Exa search API feature, plus local history, spend tracking, and diffing no other Exa tool has. Trigger phrases: `search the web for`, `get the latest news on`, `answer this question with sources`, `find similar pages`, `monitor this topic`, `exa search`, `run exa`.
What it needs
About 11k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Exa — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the exa-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: exa-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. exa-pp-cli wraps the full Exa API — search, contents, answer, find-similar, monitors, agent runs, websets, webhooks, imports — and adds a local SQLite store so every result, run, and cost lands on disk. Re-run past queries, diff monitor runs, track entity first-seens, and watch spend in real time. When to Use This CLI Use exa-pp-cli whenever an agent needs live web research with grounded citations, clean page content, scheduled monitoring, or entity tracking — and wants every search persisted locally for later querying. Anti-triggers Do not use this CLI for: Do not use exa-pp-cli for general web crawling at scale; use a dedicated crawler. Do not use exa-pp-cli to bypass paywalls or scrape restricted content. Do not use exa-pp-cli for real-time monitoring dashboards at sub-second cadence; use the API directly. Unique Capabilities These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API. Local state that compounds spend — See cumulative API spend across every Exa call, broken down by day and resource. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/exa