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exa-people-research

Skill9 starsChanged 6 months agoMITView on GitHub

People research using Exa search. Finds LinkedIn profiles, professional backgrounds, experts, team members, and public bios. Use when searching for people, finding experts, or looking up professional profiles.

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  1. Very specific:

    Call the native MCP tool exa-search__web_search_advanced_exa directly.

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  2. Very specific:

    Do NOT use: startPublishedDate, endPublishedDate, startCrawlDate, endCrawlDate, excludeDomains, includeText, excludeText.

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  3. Very specific:

    If content is auth-gated (private LinkedIn, etc.) → use browser tool with logged-in session.

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SKILL.md

People Research (Exa)

Tool

Call the native MCP tool exa-search__web_search_advanced_exa directly. Parameters go in a JSON object.

Critical Rules

  • Never run searches in main context. Spawn subagents or run sequentially.
  • Query variation: 2-3 phrasings, run in parallel, deduplicate.
  • Dynamic numResults: "a few" → 10-20, "comprehensive" → 50-100.

Categories

CategoryUse for
peopleLinkedIn profiles, public bios (primary)
personal siteBlogs, portfolios, about pages
newsPress mentions, interviews, speaker bios
(none)General web, broader context

Restrictions with category=people

Do NOT use: startPublishedDate, endPublishedDate, startCrawlDate, endCrawlDate, excludeDomains, includeText, excludeText. includeDomains → LinkedIn only: ["linkedin.com"].

Call Examples

Tool: exa-search__web_search_advanced_exa

# Find people by role
{ query: "VP Engineering AI infrastructure", category: "people", numResults: 20, type: "auto" }

# Deep dive on specific person
{ query: "Dario Amodei Anthropic CEO background", type: "auto", livecrawl: "fallback", numResults: 15 }

# News mentions
{ query: "Dario Amodei interview 2024", category: "news", numResults: 10, startPublishedDate: "2024-01-01" }

# LinkedIn only
{ query: "Machine learning engineer San Francisco", category: "people",
  includeDomains: ["linkedin.com"], numResults: 25 }

Output Format

Return:

  1. Results — name, title, company, location (if available)
  2. Sources — profile URLs
  3. Notes — profile completeness, verification status

Browser Fallback

If content is auth-gated (private LinkedIn, etc.) → use browser tool with logged-in session.

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