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exa-search

Semantic search, similar content discovery, and structured research using Exa API. Use when you need semantic/embeddings-based search, finding similar content, or searching by category (company, people, research papers, etc.).

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is well-structured and concise but largely content-free: it repeats the description and points to GitHub instead of providing executable guidance. Actionability and workflow clarity are weak because no concrete API usage steps or code are given.

Suggestions

Add an executable quick-start code block showing a real Exa API call (e.g., endpoint, request payload, parsing the response) instead of deferring all examples to GitHub.

Replace the vague 'Configure Exa API key' and 'Use naturally' steps with specific instructions: which environment variable name to set, how to verify the key works, and a concrete invocation example.

Deduplicate the Overview and 'When to Use' sections so the body adds information beyond the frontmatter description, or consolidate them into a single concise section.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and avoids over-explaining known concepts, but the Overview and 'When to Use' sections redundantly repeat the frontmatter description rather than earning their tokens with new information.

3 / 5

Actionability

Guidance stays high-level ('Configure Exa API key', 'Use naturally in Claude Code conversations') with no executable code or concrete commands for actually invoking the Exa API, deferring all substance to an external GitHub link.

2 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The 'Step-by-Step Guide' offers a rough three-item sequence (install, configure, use) with poorly defined steps and no validation checkpoints, though the task is not destructive so the hard cap does not apply.

2 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Sections are well-organized and the skill is short with no deep nesting; the main gap is that the only detailed references are external GitHub URLs rather than local bundle files.

4 / 5

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Description

78%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is clear, action-oriented, and includes explicit trigger guidance, giving it strong completeness and trigger coverage. Specificity is solid but not maximally granular, and there is minor overlap risk with adjacent web-search skills.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the Exa domain and three concrete capabilities ('semantic search, similar content discovery, and structured research') but stops short of a comprehensive enumeration of specific API actions.

3 / 5

Completeness

Clearly states what the skill does and gives an explicit 'Use when...' clause with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor pattern.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural phrases users would say ('semantic/embeddings-based search', 'finding similar content', 'searching by category') with category examples, though a few common synonyms are missing.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The 'Exa API' plus semantic/embeddings niche is mostly distinct with only minor overlap risk against general web-search skills.

4 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

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