An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that connects AI assistants and coding agents to Exa's search engine, so an agent can pull live web content into its context instead of relying on training data. It runs as a hosted remote endpoint (with an npm package alternative) and works with MCP-capable clients such as Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Zed, and others.
Two tools are enabled by default: websearchexa, which searches the web and returns clean, ready-to-use content, and webfetchexa, which retrieves the full content of a known URL. An advanced search tool adds control over filters, domains, dates, and content options, and an optional Exa Agent toolset lets the client start, poll, and retrieve async multi-step research runs. Which tools are exposed is configured via a query parameter on the server URL; earlier task-specific tools (code search, company research, crawling, people/LinkedIn search, deep research) are deprecated in favour of the consolidated search tools.
The repository also ships copy-paste Claude Code skills that layer task-specific guidance (company research, code search, people search, financial reports, research papers, personal sites) on top of the search tools, including per-category filter restrictions and query-writing patterns.