Exa MCP Server

Exa's MCP server powers neural web search and semantic content retrieval designed specifically for AI agents and language models. It enables agents to search using natural language embeddings, filter results by domain or date, extract full clean web contents, and retrieve highly relevant semantic snippets for research workflows.

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Exa MCP Server

Benefits with Ory + Exa MCP Server

Exa's MCP server gives your agents neural web search, page contents, and research on companies and code through your Exa API key. Agents often call it many times per task, and in-depth research requests take longer and use more of your plan. Ory Agent Security lets you decide which agents can use Exa at all and records every tool call with the user and agent behind it, so usage is easy to trace.

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Use Cases

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Agent IAM

Support agents use Read for quick lookups, one research agent gets Write for billed jobs, Admin only matters for tools Exa adds later, and others get Block.

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Core Functionality

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Read, write, admin, or no access
Ory Agent Security classifies every tool on the Exa MCP server as read, write, or admin, so you can give each user, team, or agent type only the level it needs: read for everyday agents that search the web, write for research agents that run longer research jobs, and no access for agents handling confidential work.
Enforced before execution
Ory Agent Security checks each tool call against the user, the agent acting for them, and any sub-agent inside the agent harness, so a denied research job stops before it reaches Exa, with nothing to roll back and no gateway to deploy.
Observe, then enforce
Observe mode shows which agents depend on Exa and how heavily without blocking anything, so you can apply Ory's pre-built policy for the Exa MCP server and enforce it on your own schedule.
Complete audit trail
Every allow and deny decision on the Exa MCP server streams to your SIEM through OpenTelemetry with the user, agent, and action attached, so you can show which agent sent a query to Exa and for whom.