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Tool Exa by b2bforce — Agent Skill

Name: Tool Exa
Author: b2bforce

Tool Exa

Run neural web search, fetch page contents, find similar pages, or get a cited answer via the Exa API. Use when a skill needs market research, reference articles, or a content landscape. Reads EXA_API_KEY from .env.

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File contents

Tool: Exa

Thin wrapper for the Exa API — neural search, content retrieval, similar-page lookup, and cited answers. Other skills call this for research enrichment.

Requirements

curl
jq
.env credentials listed below

Auth

.env:

EXA_API_KEY=

Header: x-api-key: $EXA_API_KEY. Base: https://api.exa.ai.

Endpoints

Action	Endpoint	Use
Search	`POST /search`	Neural/keyword search, optional date filter
Contents	`POST /contents`	Full text for result IDs/URLs
Find similar	`POST /findSimilar`	Pages similar to a URL
Answer	`POST /answer`	Cited answer to a question

Scripts

# Search (prints url + title list). Optional 3rd arg = number of results
bash .agents/skills/tool-exa/scripts/search.sh "B2B drupal migration trends" 10

# Cited answer to a question (prints answer text + sources)
bash .agents/skills/tool-exa/scripts/answer.sh "What do buyers ask before a platform migration?"

Rules

Key from .env only.
Use for research only (blog, case study, service page, ICP, content ideas) — do not attach long Exa blocks to LinkedIn/X drafts.
Prefer date-filtered search (last 12 months) for content-landscape queries.
Degrade gracefully if unset.

Used by

marketing-content-ideas (content landscape), marketing-content-blog-post and -case-study (reference articles), marketing-icp and marketing-service-page (market research).

Frequently asked questions