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Web search exa
An MCP tool from the Exa Search server, run by Exa.
Search the web for any topic and get clean, ready-to-use content. Best for: Finding current information, news, facts, people, companies, or answering questions about any topic. Returns: Clean text content from top search results. Query tips: describe the ideal page, not keywords. "blog post comparing React and Vue performance" not "React vs Vue". Use category:people / category:company to search through Linkedin profiles / companies respectively. If highlights are insufficient, follow up with web_fetch_exa on the best URLs.
Name on the gateway: exa__web_search_exa.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
query required | string | 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 | number | Number of search results to return (default: 10). |
objective required | string | Goal for this search turn; say which documents should rank first, which should be excluded, and what specific facts or figures to pull from them. |
How to call it
Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:
{
"name": "exa__web_search_exa",
"arguments": {
"query": "…",
"objective": "…"
}
}The first call connects Exa Search to your account automatically; nothing to set up. About this server.
Try asking
Use the web search exa tool with query set to ….