Exa MCP

Exa MCP

Use Exa’s hosted MCP endpoint (https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp) to run research tools via an executable script.

This skill is intentionally simple: it provides one reliable way to call MCP tools from the OpenClaw environment and capture results.

Quick start

Call a tool:

node scripts/exa_mcp_call.mjs web_search_exa '{"query":"best neighborhoods to stay in Lisbon","numResults":5}'

Get raw JSON:

node scripts/exa_mcp_call.mjs web_search_exa '{"query":"OpenClaw"}' --raw

Common workflows

1) Fast web search (clean snippets)

Use web_search_exa.

node scripts/exa_mcp_call.mjs web_search_exa '{"query":"<your query>","numResults":5}'

2) Deeper search / more thorough research

Use deep_search_exa (when you need more coverage than a quick search).

node scripts/exa_mcp_call.mjs deep_search_exa '{"query":"<your query>"}'

3) Crawl a specific page (extract useful content)

Use crawling_exa to pull content from a known URL.

node scripts/exa_mcp_call.mjs crawling_exa '{"url":"https://example.com"}'

4) Company research / people research

Use company_research_exa and people_search_exa for structured “who/what” research.

node scripts/exa_mcp_call.mjs company_research_exa '{"query":"OpenClaw"}'
node scripts/exa_mcp_call.mjs people_search_exa '{"query":"<person name>"}'

5) Long-running deep research

Use deep_researcher_start to kick off a job, then poll with deep_researcher_check.

node scripts/exa_mcp_call.mjs deep_researcher_start '{"query":"<your query>"}' --raw
# take the job id from output, then:
node scripts/exa_mcp_call.mjs deep_researcher_check '{"id":"<job id>"}'

Notes / gotchas

• Exa MCP responds as Server-Sent Events (SSE). scripts/exa_mcp_call.mjs handles this and prints the text payloads.
• If you need the full tool schemas, read references/tools-list.sse.
• If Exa changes schemas, re-fetch the tools list (see references/README-TOOLS.md).

Resources

scripts/

• scripts/exa_mcp_call.mjs: Calls tools/call on https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp and prints results.

references/

• references/tools-list.sse: Raw output from tools/list (includes tool names + JSON schemas).
• references/README-TOOLS.md: How to refresh the tool list.