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Give AI agents live, meaning-based web search through Exa over MCP

Overview

A Model Context Protocol integration exposes Exa's search, content extraction, find-similar, and answer capabilities as tools an autonomous agent can call. Agents can search the live web by meaning, pull clean page content, find related sources, and return cited answers — all within a permissioned, auditable flow.

What agents can do
01
Neural web search

Run meaning-based queries and get semantically ranked, current results with relevance scores.

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Content extraction

Retrieve clean parsed text, highlights, and summaries from any result URL for grounding.

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Find similar pages

Pass a URL and discover conceptually related pages to expand or triangulate research.

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Cited answers

Ask a question and receive a synthesized answer backed by linked source citations.

Agentic workflows we build
Autonomous research agents

We build agents that decompose a brief, search Exa iteratively, extract and cross-check sources, and return a cited synthesis — replacing hours of manual desk research.

Always-on monitoring agents

Scheduled agents query Exa for new developments in a client's category, dedupe against prior runs, and push summarized, sourced alerts into Slack or the CRM.

Grounded generation agents

Content and outreach agents call Exa mid-task to ground each claim in live sources, keeping AI-generated copy current and attributable before it ships.

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FAQ
What can an agent actually do with Exa over MCP?

It can search the web by meaning, extract clean content from specific pages, find pages similar to a reference URL, and get citation-backed answers — the full retrieval loop an agent needs to research and ground its work autonomously.

How do you keep agent web access controlled?

We scope which Exa tools an agent can call, cap result volume and query frequency, and log every call with its sources, so autonomous retrieval stays governed and auditable.

Can Exa results flow into other agent tools?

Yes. Because MCP standardizes the interface, an agent can take Exa's parsed content and citations and hand them to CRM, warehouse, or messaging tools in the same run, chaining retrieval into real actions.

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