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Exa Web Search Free

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sundial-org·vlatest·backend

Helps with web development, search as part of developing backend services and APIs workflows.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills --skill exa-web-search-free -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

sundial-org

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills at b80cde2ef8.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
b80cde2ef8
Manifest
skills/exa-web-search-free/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 184 lines
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About this skill

What it does

The exa-web-search-free skill enables AI agents to perform web searches using free, open-source tools. It is optimized for retrieving relevant information from the internet without requiring paid API keys or subscriptions.

When to use it

  • To gather up-to-date factual data when no internal knowledge exists
  • For research tasks that require current information from reliable sources
  • When developing AI agents that need web search capabilities but cannot afford commercial APIs

Key capabilities

  • Free and open-source implementation
  • Ability to perform general web searches
  • No requirement for API keys or paid access

Example prompts

  • "Find the latest news about renewable energy in 2024."
  • "Search for recent studies on AI ethics published in 2023."
  • "Look up the current exchange rate between USD and EUR."

Tips & gotchas

  • Be aware that free search tools may have limitations in speed or depth of results compared to commercial alternatives.
  • Ensure proper handling of search results to avoid biases or outdated information.