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Exa AI web search, deep research, and content extraction. Provides MCP tools and research skills for comprehensive web search, people discovery, company research, academic papers…

Plugin bundle · by exa-labs

About

exa is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by exa-labs. Marketplaces we read that list it: 5 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-official, Official MCP Registry, Docker MCP Catalog, Claude: knowledge-work-plugins, Community GitHub marketplaces). The last change we recorded was on 2026-10-12. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-12.

In its own words, on Claude Code: claude-plugins-official:

Exa AI web search, deep research, and content extraction. Provides MCP tools and research skills for comprehensive web search, people discovery, company research, academic papers, and more.

What it asks for

  • Runs remotely
  • Runs on your machine
  • Secrets: 1
  • Settings: 1
  • Tools: 2

Tools it declares: 2. As declared on: Docker MCP Catalog.

  • web_fetch_exa
  • web_search_exa

What it declares, asks for and runs, in full

Only install plugins from developers you trust. We list what marketplaces publish and do not test plugins.

Connect

Commands and configs built only from what its marketplaces declare. We do not run them for you and do not test plugins.

As a Claude Code plugin

Built from what Claude Code: claude-plugins-official declares.

Claude CodeInside a Claude Code session
/plugin install exa@claude-plugins-official

Claude Code adds this marketplace by itself, so one command is enough.

As a remote MCP server

Built from what Official MCP Registry declares.

Claude CodeTerminal
claude mcp add --transport http exa https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp
Codex~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.exa]
url = "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"
Cursor~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exa": {
      "url": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Where it is published

MarketplaceStatusVersionFiguresVerifiedFirst seen
Claude Code: claude-plugins-official (Open the source on GitHub) Listed 3.4.1 Forks (GitHub): 401
Stars (GitHub): 5 106
Not marked
Official MCP Registry (Open the registry record) Listed 3.4.1 No figure published Not marked
Docker MCP Catalog (Open on Docker Hub) Listed sha256:d88edd571d98 Pulls (Docker Hub): 36 173
Stars (Docker Hub): 7
Not marked
Claude: knowledge-work-plugins (Open the source on GitHub) Listed 3.4.1 No figure published Not marked

Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.

Also listed in one community marketplace
MarketplaceRepositoryStars (GitHub)
exa exa-labs/exa-mcp-server 5 106

Which marketplaces we read and how we check them

What the bundle contains

As published on Claude Code: claude-plugins-official.

MCP servers: 1

  • exa

Skills: 2

  • exa-agent
  • search

What changed

Nothing has moved on this plugin since we started watching it.

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