Exa MCP Tools

When to Use

• •Finding specific code examples and patterns
• •Company and product research
• •Academic and technical content discovery
• •Finding obscure or specialized sources

Available Tools

• •mcp__exa__web_search_exa — Semantic web search with content extraction
• •mcp__exa__company_research_exa — Focused company/product research
• •mcp__exa__get_code_context_exa — Find code examples and technical context

Query Strategies

• •Exa excels at semantic search: phrase queries as natural language, not keywords
• •Use get_code_context_exa for finding implementation patterns across the web
• •company_research_exa is best for competitive analysis and product comparisons
• •Set numResults to control breadth (default 5, up to 10 for comprehensive searches)
• •Set tokensNum for code context to control depth of each result

Limitations

• •API key required
• •Results are web content, not synthesized — you'll need to synthesize yourself
• •Better for discovery than for authoritative reference