Exa Search

{
  "name": "Exa Search",
  "description": "Web search, content extraction, and question answering powered by Exa's neural search engine. Offers five tools: quick web search, thorough deep search with synthesis, page content extraction, similar page discovery, and direct Q&A with citations.",
  "protocolVersion": "0.3.0",
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "url": "https://exa-ai-search.vercel.app/agent",
  "capabilities": {
    "streaming": true,
    "pushNotifications": false
  },
  "defaultInputModes": [
    "text/plain"
  ],
  "defaultOutputModes": [
    "text/plain"
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "id": "web-search",
      "name": "Web Search",
      "description": "Fast web search that returns a list of relevant pages with full text content. Use this when you need to browse multiple sources or gather raw material. Does NOT synthesize an answer \u2014 returns pages for you to read. Supports category filtering (news, research paper, company, etc.).",
      "tags": [
        "search",
        "web",
        "exa",
        "neural"
      ],
      "examples": [
        "Search for recent articles about AI agents",
        "Find research papers on transformer architectures",
        "Search for news about cryptocurrency regulations"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "deep-search",
      "name": "Deep Search",
      "description": "Thorough search (4-12s) that expands your query, searches broadly, and returns a synthesized answer with grounded citations AND the underlying source pages. Use this when you need a comprehensive, well-researched answer backed by multiple sources. More expensive and slower than web-search, but does the analysis for you.",
      "tags": [
        "deep",
        "search",
        "synthesis",
        "research",
        "exa"
      ],
      "examples": [
        "What are the latest developments in quantum computing?",
        "Thoroughly research the impact of AI on healthcare",
        "Compare different approaches to vector databases"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "get-answer",
      "name": "Get Answer",
      "description": "Quick, direct answer to a factual question with source citations. Use this for simple Q&A where you want a concise answer, not a list of pages. Does NOT return full page content \u2014 just the answer and citation URLs. Faster and cheaper than deep-search but less thorough.",
      "tags": [
        "answer",
        "qa",
        "citations",
        "exa"
      ],
      "examples": [
        "Who is the CEO of OpenAI?",
        "What programming language is Linux written in?",
        "When was the Eiffel Tower built?"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "get-content",
      "name": "Get Content",
      "description": "Extract clean text from a specific URL you already know. Use this when you have a URL and need its content \u2014 NOT for searching. Does not search the web.",
      "tags": [
        "crawl",
        "extract",
        "content",
        "exa"
      ],
      "examples": [
        "Get the content of https://example.com/article",
        "Extract text from this blog post URL"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "find-similar",
      "name": "Find Similar Pages",
      "description": "Given a URL, find other pages that are similar in topic and content. Use this for discovery \u2014 finding competitors, related articles, or alternative sources. Requires a URL as input, not a text query.",
      "tags": [
        "similar",
        "related",
        "discovery",
        "exa"
      ],
      "examples": [
        "Find pages similar to https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00001",
        "What sites are similar to techcrunch.com?"
      ]
    }
  ]
}