Ask Claude Code about a library that shipped last month and one of two things happens: it answers from training data that’s already stale, or it searches and comes back with a list of links and snippets it then has to fetch one by one. Either way you spend the next few turns steering it toward the page that actually has the answer.
Exa MCP connects Claude Code to Exa, a search engine built for AI agents. Instead of ten blue links, web_search_exa returns clean page content ready to read, and web_fetch_exa turns any URL into Markdown. It’s a hosted server, so setup is one command, and it works without an API key to start.
What the full guide covers:
- What You’ll Need
- Step-by-Step Setup
- What Each Piece Does
- Verify It’s Actually Working
The commands, our own test notes, and the troubleshooting steps are in the full guide, which we keep up to date:
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