Exa Search

Use when doing AI-native web search or finding similar pages via Exa API (EXA_API_KEY). Prefer for research/code-oriented retrieval; use Tavily Hikari or Keenable for general agent search MCP.

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Exa Search

Auth

Env: EXA_API_KEY (local user env + Codex shell_environment_policy).

Docs: https://docs.exa.ai
Site: https://exa.ai

Usage

HTTP:

# PowerShell example
$headers = @{ "x-api-key" = $env:EXA_API_KEY; "Content-Type" = "application/json" }
$body = @{ query = "your query"; numResults = 5; type = "auto" } | ConvertTo-Json
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://api.exa.ai/search -Method Post -Headers $headers -Body $body

Prefer order (local)

  1. Keenable MCP / CLI (agent-oriented search + fetch)
  2. Tavily Hikari MCP (pool, search/extract/crawl/research)
  3. Exa API when you need Exa-style neural search / similar links

Do not hardcode keys in chat.

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