Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add commands/exa-labs/exa-cursor-plugin/exa-setupgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-cursor-pluginWhat it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00253 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00127 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00051 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00025 |
Grade A, and why
exa-setup scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Exa Plugin Setup
You (the AI) must:
- Add the following MCP config to the project's
.cursor/mcp.jsonfile (create it if it doesn't exist):
{
"mcpServers": {
"exa": {
"url": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
- After adding the config, verify setup by checking if
web_search_exais available in your tool list.
Request the user to:
- Open Cursor Settings → Tools & MCP.
- Find exa in the list.
- Toggle it on (click the green enable button).
Troubleshooting
If web_search_exa is still not available after setup:
You (the AI) must:
- Stop and do not attempt to use fallback tools or answer from your own knowledge.
Request the user to:
- Confirm the MCP server shows as enabled (green) in Cursor Settings → Tools & MCP.
- Restart Cursor if the MCP server was just added.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2d ago First seen · 42 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 8914d83d8c32
exa-setup is a command published in the GitHub repository exa-labs/exa-cursor-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 253 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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