Exa Search

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Source-specific install hints as returned by Smithery.

{
  "qualifiedName": "exa",
  "displayName": "Exa Search",
  "description": "Fast, intelligent web search and web crawling.\n\nNew mcp tool: Exa-code is a context tool for coding agents. It provides agents with fresh information about libraries, APIs, and SDKs with the purpose of reducing hallucinations.",
  "iconUrl": "https://api.smithery.ai/servers/exa/icon",
  "remote": true,
  "deploymentUrl": "https://exa.run.tools",
  "connections": [
    {
      "type": "http",
      "deploymentUrl": "https://exa.run.tools",
      "configSchema": {}
    }
  ],
  "security": null,
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "web_search_exa",
      "description": "Search the web for any topic and get clean, ready-to-use content.\n\n      Best for: Finding current information, news, facts, people, companies, or answering questions about any topic.\n      Returns: Clean text content from top search results, ready for LLM use.\n\n      Query tips: describe the ideal page, not keywords. \"blog post comparing React and Vue performance\" not \"React vs Vue\".\n      Use category:people to specifically search through Linkedin profiles and category:company to search through company pages.\n      If highlights are insufficient, follow up with web_fetch_exa on the best URLs.",
      "inputSchema": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "query": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Natural language search query. Should be a semantically rich description of the ideal page, not just keywords. Optionally include category:<type> (company, people) to focus results — e.g. 'category:people John Doe software engineer'."
          },
          "numResults": {
            "type": "number",
            "maximum": 100,
            "minimum": 1,
            "description": "Number of search results to return (must be a number, default: 10)."
          }
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "web_fetch_exa",
      "description": "Read a webpage's full content as clean markdown. Use after web_search_exa when highlights are insufficient or to read any URL.\n\nBest for: Extracting full content from known URLs. Batch multiple URLs in one call.\nReturns: Clean text content and metadata from the page(s).",
      "inputSchema": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "urls": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "description": "URLs to read. Batch multiple URLs in one call."
          },
          "maxCharacters": {
            "type": "number",
            "minimum": 1,
            "description": "Maximum characters to extract per page (must be a positive number, default: 3000)"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "resources": [
    {
      "name": "tools_list",
      "uri": "exa://tools/list",
      "description": "List of available Exa tools and their descriptions",
      "mimeType": "application/json"
    }
  ],
  "prompts": [
    {
      "name": "web_search_help",
      "description": "Get help with web search using Exa",
      "arguments": []
    }
  ]
}