Exa

About

This is an MCP connector that gives the Sazabi agent tools from Exa's hosted MCP server (mcp.exa.ai/mcp). Sazabi stores your Exa API key securely and sends it as the x-api-key header to Exa's MCP endpoint. Agents can then run neural and keyword web searches, fetch page contents, crawl URLs, research companies, and kick off deep research tasks.

What the agent can do:

• Run neural and keyword web searches with content retrieval
• Research companies and produce structured summaries
• Crawl and extract contents from specific URLs
• Find similar links to a given page
• Run deep research tasks over the web

Prerequisites

• An Exa account
• An Exa API key from the Exa dashboard

Set up in the dashboard

Configure connectors in the dashboard under Settings > MCP connectors.

Set up with the CLI

Exa authenticates with an Exa API key, and sazabi mcp-connectors connect only supports OAuth providers — so set up this connector in the dashboard first (above). Once it's connected, the Sazabi CLI can inspect and manage it (installed and authenticated — see sazabi mcp-connectors reference):

sazabi mcp-connectors list
sazabi mcp-connectors details <connection-id>

Find the connection ID with sazabi mcp-connectors list. To rotate the stored credentials later, use sazabi mcp-connectors update-credentials <connection-id>.

Verify

Open the connector's connection page under Settings > MCP connectors and confirm Sazabi lists the tools it discovered. Then, in a thread, ask the agent to search the web for something and confirm it returns results. If no tools appear, confirm the API key is correct.

Troubleshooting

No tools discovered — Confirm the Exa API key is valid. Check that it was copied correctly from the Exa dashboard.

Connection shows needs attention — The API key may have expired or been revoked; create a new key and reconnect from Settings > MCP connectors.

Further reading