Exa MCP Server connects AI agents to Exa, a service for searching the web, fetching webpage content, and carrying out multi-step research. MCP, or Model Context Protocol, lets compatible AI clients call these capabilities as tools. The catalogue skills, MCP server, and plugin provide ways for coding agents to use Exa for web research.
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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-serverWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/mcp/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server/exa)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/mcp/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server/exa"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server/exa/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/mcp/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server/exa"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server/exa.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>Grade A, and why
exa 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 1mo 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.
Copies of this mod
8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- mcp — 86% identical, 4 lines differ
- equibles — 83% identical, 6 lines differ
- invompt — 81% identical, 4 lines differ
- agentry — 78% identical, 4 lines differ
- walkmyplan — 78% identical, 4 lines differ
- defi-vaults — 77% identical, 4 lines differ
- server — 73% identical, 4 lines differ
- platform — 70% identical, 4 lines differ
What it actually says
{
"exa": {
"url": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp",
"type": "streamable-http"
}
}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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 6 lines scan A 4a59433f1d68
exa is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository exa-labs/exa-mcp-server (5,160 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. 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 2026-08-30.
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