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loongphy/skills

Analysis updated 2026-05-18

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TLDR

A reusable AI agent skill that adds web search, content extraction, and AI answers via the Exa API.

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    What it does
      Reusable agent skills
      Web search skill
    Tech stack
      PowerShell
      Bash
      Exa API
    Use cases
      Agent web research
      Content extraction
      LLM answers
    Audience
      Developers
      Agent builders

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Give an AI agent the ability to search the web and pull page content on demand.

USE CASE 2

Get LLM powered answers to questions directly from a command line tool.

USE CASE 3

Add a ready-made web research skill to an agent setup with one install command.

What is it built with?

PowerShellBashExa API

How does it compare?

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Stars000
LanguagePowerShellPowerShellPowerShell
Setup difficultyeasymoderateeasy
Complexity2/53/51/5
Audiencedeveloperresearchervibe coder

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Requires a free or paid Exa API key.

In plain English

Loongphy/skills is a small collection of reusable AI agent skills. At the time of writing it holds one skill, called exa-search, but the repository is set up as a growing collection rather than a single-purpose tool. The whole collection can be added to a compatible agent environment with a single command using a tool called npx, which means a developer does not need to manually copy files or configure anything by hand to start using it. The exa-search skill connects AI agents to the web by providing search, content extraction, and AI powered answer generation through the Exa API, a web search and content retrieval service. It ships as a cross platform command line tool: a bash script for Unix systems and a PowerShell script for Windows, so it works whether the agent is running on macOS, Linux, or Windows. Both versions support the same set of subcommands for searching the web, extracting the readable content of a page, and getting LLM powered answers rather than raw search results. Using it requires an Exa API key, which can be obtained from the Exa dashboard. The key can be stored either as an environment variable or saved to a local config file, giving some flexibility in how it is wired into an existing agent setup. Detailed usage instructions and the full list of flags are documented separately in a SKILL.md file within the repository, rather than in the main README. This is most useful for developers building AI agent workflows who want their agents to perform real web research without switching context to a browser or writing a custom search integration from scratch. Because it installs as a self-contained skill, it can be dropped into an existing agent setup alongside other skills without much extra plumbing.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me install this skill with npx and set my Exa API key as an environment variable.
Prompt 2
Show me how to use the exa search CLI to search the web and extract a page's content.
Prompt 3
Explain the difference between the search, extract, and answer subcommands in this tool.
Prompt 4
Walk me through the SKILL.md file so I understand all the available flags.

Frequently asked questions

What is skills?

A reusable AI agent skill that adds web search, content extraction, and AI answers via the Exa API.

What language is skills written in?

Mainly PowerShell. The stack also includes PowerShell, Bash, Exa API.

How hard is skills to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is skills for?

Mainly developer.

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