# Exa Search MCP — tool skill for research & trends

> **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"` returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Neural web search and crawling for research agents.

- **Type:** [Tool](https://skills.varg.ai/models.md) · [Research & trends](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/research.md)
- **Slug:** `exa-mcp`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Exa (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, Cursor, Any MCP client
- **Requires:** Exa account (OAuth or API key)
- **Cost:** Billed by Exa; free tier available
- **Adoption:** 5,175 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

The official Exa MCP server: web search that understands descriptions ("music video with a one-take dance through a supermarket"), plus page fetching. A good general research layer under every Discover guide when a platform has no API.

## Use when

- Find pages and articles describing a look or format
- Research a director or a campaign

## Install

- Claude Code: `claude plugin install exa@claude-plugins-official`
- Codex: `codex mcp add exa --url https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp`
- Any MCP client: `https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp`

## More research & trends skills

- [Video Skills Finder](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/video-skills.md): Finds the right skill for any AI video, image, voice or music job here and shows you the visual options.
- [Apify MCP](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/apify-mcp.md): Thousands of ready scrapers behind one MCP: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, hashtags, sounds.
- [TwelveLabs Video Understanding](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/twelvelabs.md): Semantic search and analysis across your video library from Claude Code.
- [Civitai MCP](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/civitai-mcp.md): Top AI images and videos with prompts and base models, plus model search.
- [Hugging Face MCP](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/huggingface-mcp.md): Trending models, Spaces and papers from Hugging Face inside your agent.
- [Firecrawl MCP](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/firecrawl-mcp.md): Search, scrape and crawl web pages into clean text for your agent.