exa Agent Plugin

The Exa agent plugin combines an MCP server with search-focused skills for web investigation, code discovery, company research, people searches, and structured Exa Agent workflows. Tool selection can be configured so clients expose the search and research capabilities relevant to a task.

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0 repository stars MIT Updated Aug 8, 2026

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Qualified

Format

100/100

Quality

93/100

Qualified

97/100

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Connect an MCP client to Exa

Use the hosted Exa MCP server in a compatible MCP client, or install the Agent Plugin where the client supports Agent Plugin or Claude plugin packages. The package also includes client-specific configuration guidance and skills that load with supported plugin installations.

Installation

Install Plugin

Choose Codex or Copilot, click Copy, paste the two lines into a terminal, and press Enter.The installation commands are identical on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

codex plugin marketplace add exa-labs/exa-mcp-server
codex plugin add exa@exa

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Why this plugin qualified

This is the original assessment excerpt captured during manual catalog selection. It describes review evidence, not a security guarantee or user rating.

A mature, clearly scoped MCP integration that connects agents to Exa's hosted web search, page fetching, code search, crawling, LinkedIn and people search, company research, deep research, and structured agent workflows. Evidence shows broad client installation guidance, OAuth/API-key/anonymous authentication paths, configurable tool selection, an Agent Plugin manifest, reusable research skills, detailed reference material, MIT licensing, and a substantial TypeScript implementation with unit tes…

Capabilities

What can you do with exa?

Search, fetch, filter, and orchestrate research through configurable Exa MCP tools.

The package provides default web search and webpage fetching, with optional advanced search and agent tools. Its included search skill adds guidance for research patterns, filtering, extraction, source quality, and synthesis, while the Exa Agent skill covers enrichment and structured output workflows.

Search the web and retrieve webpage content as clean text
Use advanced filters for domains, dates, highlights, summaries, and subpages
Explore code, companies, people, news, papers, and relationship-focused searches
Run multi-step research and enrichment with structured output
Choose which MCP tools are enabled for a client connection

Configurable MCP tools

Expose default web search and webpage fetching, or select optional advanced search and agent tools through the MCP configuration.

Research-oriented skills

The search skill organizes guidance for deep research, lead generation, competitive analysis, filtering, extraction, source quality, and synthesis.

Authentication choices

The hosted MCP setup supports anonymous access with rate limits, plus OAuth or an API key for higher limits and Exa Agent access.

Structured research output

The Exa Agent skill and optional agent tool support multi-step research, list building, enrichment, and structured results.

Practical workflow

A reviewed exa workflow

Pass 01 / Search

Find relevant web sources

Use web search for broad discovery, or apply advanced search controls for domains, dates, highlights, summaries, and subpage crawling.

Pass 02 / Inspect

Fetch and examine content

Retrieve one or more webpages as clean markdown, then use the included research guidance for extraction, source evaluation, and synthesis.

Pass 03 / Orchestrate

Turn research into structured results

For supported authenticated setups, use Exa Agent workflows for multi-step investigation, enrichment, list building, and structured output.

Package contents

What is included in exa?

exa declares 2 Skills, 1 MCP configuration, and 0 additional resources. The included-file links below point to the reviewed source repository.

Agent Skills

exa-agent, search

MCP servers

Portable MCP configuration

Package format

Agent Plugins

Official latest 1.0.0

plugin.json

plugin.json from the fixed reviewed source snapshot.

README.md

README.md from the fixed reviewed source snapshot.

LICENSE

LICENSE from the fixed reviewed source snapshot.

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Source: https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server#readme

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Source documentation

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