Search the web with Exa and retrieve full page text, highlights, or summaries. Choose search modes, narrow results by category and supported filters, and receive structured JSON for research and content collection workflows.
Agent-native CLI for Exa web search and content retrieval workflows.
Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.
cli-anything-exaProvides 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.
pip install cli-anything-exaexport EXA_API_KEY="your-api-key" (get one at https://dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys)pip install git+https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git#subdirectory=exa/agent-harness
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
cli-anything-exa contents <url> [url ...] [--content text|highlights|summary] [--freshness smart|always|never]
cli-anything-exa server status
All commands support --json at the root level for machine-readable output:
cli-anything-exa --json search "latest LLM papers" --num-results 5
cli-anything-exa --json search "site:arxiv.org transformer architectures" --type fast --content highlights
cli-anything-exa --json search "EU AI Act compliance requirements 2024" --type deep --content text
cli-anything-exa --json search "retrieval augmented generation" --category research-paper --num-results 20
cli-anything-exa --json search "Anthropic funding history" --category company
cli-anything-exa --json search "AI regulation news" --category news --from 2024-01-01
cli-anything-exa --json contents https://example.com/article --content text
cli-anything-exa # No subcommand → enters REPL
Type commands without the cli-anything-exa prefix. Type exit or quit to leave.
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 filterscost_dollarsNo reviews yet. Tell others what you thought.
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