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title: "exa"
description: "A Model Context Protocol server with Exa for web search, code search, and web crawling. Provides real-time web searches with configurable tool selection, allowing users to enable or disable specific search capabilities."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/exa
last-updated: 2026-09-22
---

# exa
A Model Context Protocol server with Exa for web search, code search, and web crawling. Provides real-time web searches with configurable tool selection, allowing users to enable or disable specific search capabilities.
- Slug: exa
- Publisher: Exa
- Repository: https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 3.4.1
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): research
- Skills: 2 (exa-agent, search)
- MCP servers: 1 (exa)
- Stars: 5039
- Repository created: 2024-11-27
- Repository last pushed: 2026-08-21
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/exa
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What exa does, in the publisher's words

Exa MCP Server

Connect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- exa-agent: Use Exa Agent for multi-step web research, list-building, enrichment, structured output, run continuation, and coverage validation. Exa Agent can access additional data providers: fiber, financial_datasets, similarweb, baselayer, affiliate, particle, and jinko.
- search: Deep research powered by Exa. Use for lead generation, literature reviews, deep dives, competitive analysis, or any query where one search falls short, including phrases like 'research this', 'find everything about', 'find me all', or 'deep dive on'.

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.

## MCP servers

- exa: transport: streamable-http; url: https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp?client=agent-plugin

Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.