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cli-anything-exa

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About cli-anything-exa

cli-anything-exa is an agent-oriented command-line skill for the Exa API, supporting web search in several modes and page retrieval. It provides category filters, content formats, and JSON output.

Key features

  1. 01Web search in multiple modes
  2. 02Filter results by category
  3. 03Fetch full text or summaries
  4. 04JSON output and interactive REPL
  5. 05Check API key and connectivity

Use cases

  1. 01Find research papers or company information
  2. 02Monitor news topics
  3. 03Research a topic across sources
  4. 04Fetch pages for summarization

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/hkuds/cli-anything --skill cli-anything-exa

After installing, type/cli-anything-exain Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Details

From the project README

Exa CLI Skill

Identity

  • Name: cli-anything-exa
  • Version: 1.0.0
  • Category: search
  • Entry Point: cli-anything-exa

What This CLI Does

Provides an agent-native command-line interface to the Exa API — a neural search engine optimised for AI agent workflows. Supports web search across multiple modes (fast, deep, deep-reasoning) and fetching full-text or highlighted page contents.

Prerequisites

Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git#subdirectory=exa/agent-harness

Command Reference

search — Web search
cli-anything-exa search "<query>" [OPTIONS]

Options:
  --type       auto|fast|instant|deep|deep-reasoning  (default: auto)
  --num-results / -n   1–100  (default: 10)
  --category   company|people|research-paper|news|personal-site|financial-report
  --content    highlights|text|summary|none  (default: highlights)
  --freshness  smart|always|never  (default: smart)
  --include-domains DOMAIN   (repeatable)
  --exclude-domains DOMAIN   (repeatable)
  --from DATE   ISO 8601 start published date
  --to   DATE   ISO 8601 end published date
  --location CC  Two-letter country code for geo-bias
contents — Fetch page contents
cli-anything-exa contents <url> [url ...] [--content text|highlights|summary] [--freshness smart|always|never]
server status — Verify API key and connectivity
cli-anything-exa server status

JSON Output

All commands support --json at the root level for machine-readable output:

cli-anything-exa --json search "latest LLM papers" --num-results 5

Common Agent Patterns

Fast keyword lookup
cli-anything-exa --json search "site:arxiv.org transformer architectures" --type fast --content highlights
Deep research on a topic
cli-anything-exa --json search "EU AI Act compliance requirements 2024" --type deep --content text
Academic paper discovery
cli-anything-exa --json search "retrieval augmented generation" --category research-paper --num-results 20
Company intelligence
cli-anything-exa --json search "Anthropic funding history" --category company
News monitoring
cli-anything-exa --json search "AI regulation news" --category news --from 2024-01-01
Fetch full content for summarisation
cli-anything-exa --json contents https://example.com/article --content text

Interactive REPL

cli-anything-exa   # No subcommand → enters REPL

Type commands without the cli-anything-exa prefix. Type exit or quit to leave.

Notes

  • highlights content mode is 10× more token-efficient than text — prefer it for agent pipelines
  • --type deep triggers multi-step reasoning; slower but synthesises across many sources
  • --category company and --category people do not support date or domain-exclude filters
  • Cost per query is included in JSON output under cost_dollars

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