# Exa agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made Exa playbooks for AI agents. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Use Exa to search the web and code with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/exa/skills/essentials.md): Guides your AI assistant through choosing between general web search and code-context search with Exa, pacing queries, and reporting sources. It treats fetched pages as untrusted and does not switch accounts or keys without asking.

## Install

- RevampKey: connect Exa at https://revampkey.com/marketplace/exa; the skills come with it.
- Any Agent Skills tool, into the current project:

```bash
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/exa-essentials/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/exa/skills/essentials/SKILL.md
```

### What is a Exa agent skill?

A SKILL.md file: a short playbook an AI agent loads when your request matches it. Each Exa skill describes one job, which Exa tools to use in which order, what to check first and when to stop and ask you.

### Do the Exa skills change anything on their own?

1 of the 1 only read. The others tell the agent to show you the change and wait for a yes before it creates, edits or deletes anything in Exa.

### Which tools can use these skills?

Any agent that reads the open Agent Skills format: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code with Copilot and RevampKey. In RevampKey they are attached when you connect Exa; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

### Do I need the Exa MCP server too?

Yes. The skills tell the agent how to do the work; the Exa MCP server gives it the tools to do it. The Exa MCP setup guide covers every client.

MCP setup guide: https://revampkey.com/marketplace/exa.md