exa

exa is an MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode from theagenticguy/agentic-plugins. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of exa, MIT.

An MCP server configuration that connects coding agents to Exa, a service for web search, page retrieval, and multi-step research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for web searches, fetching online content, and research tasks that involve several search steps.
Why use it?
It gives agents a way to gather information from the web when the answer is not in the codebase. It requires an Exa API key to run.

MCP server for Claude CodeCodexCursorGemini CLIOpenCode

Part of the agentic-skills plugin — 1 skill, 7 MCP servers shipped together

One of 7 entries in .mcp.json — they are configured in one file and arrive together.

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/theagenticguy/agentic-plugins/agentic-skills-exa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/theagenticguy/agentic-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

Or install agentic-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 7 MCP servers.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for exa

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/mcp/theagenticguy/agentic-plugins/agentic-skills-exa"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/theagenticguy/agentic-plugins/agentic-skills-exa.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Security

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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to exa — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/agentic-skills/.mcp.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "exa": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": [
      "-y",
      "exa-mcp-server"
    ],
    "env": {
      "EXA_API_KEY": "${EXA_API_KEY}"
    }
  }
}
Same file

What else .mcp.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 7. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.

Changes

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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 12 lines scan A c10405057feb

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exa is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository theagenticguy/agentic-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 22d 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. It is 100% identical to exa, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.