Exa

About Exa

The Exa MCP server lets an assistant run semantic web searches and pull full page content, built for retrieving high-quality sources for agents.

Give the assistant AI-native web search.

Installing Exa

Runs on demand via npx. Nothing to install globally.

claude mcp add exa -- npx -y exa-mcp-server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exa": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "exa-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EXA_API_KEY": "<your EXA_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Not sure where the config file lives, or it isn't picking the server up? Config paths for every client.

Requires EXA_API_KEY, get this from the maintainer. Never commit them.

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