exa-personal-site

name	exa-personal-site
description	Search personal websites and blogs using Exa. Finds individual perspectives, portfolios, tutorials, and personal blogs. Use when searching for personal sites, blog posts, practitioner deep-dives, or portfolio websites.
user-invocable	true

Personal Site Search (Exa)

Tool

Call the native MCP tool exa-search__web_search_advanced_exa directly with category: "personal site".

Always include category: "personal site".

Full Filter Support

Unlike company or tweet categories, personal site supports ALL parameters:

• Domain: includeDomains, excludeDomains
• Date: startPublishedDate, endPublishedDate, startCrawlDate, endCrawlDate
• Text: includeText, excludeText (single-item only — multi-item causes 400 error)
• Content: enableSummary, enableHighlights, subpages, subpageTarget

Call Examples

Tool: exa-search__web_search_advanced_exa

# Technical blog posts
{ query: "building production LLM applications lessons learned", category: "personal site",
  numResults: 15, type: "deep", enableSummary: true }

# Recent posts only
{ query: "Rust async runtime comparison", category: "personal site",
  startPublishedDate: "2025-01-01", numResults: 10, type: "auto" }

# Exclude aggregators, find independent blogs
{ query: "startup founder lessons", category: "personal site",
  excludeDomains: ["medium.com","substack.com"], numResults: 15, type: "auto" }

# Portfolio sites with subpages
{ query: "AI engineer portfolio projects", category: "personal site",
  numResults: 10, subpages: 2, subpageTarget: "projects" }

When to Use

• Individual expert opinions and experiences
• Personal blog posts on technical topics
• Portfolio websites
• Independent analysis (not corporate content)
• Deep-dives and tutorials from practitioners

Output Format

Return:

1. Results — title, author/site name, date, key insights
2. Sources — URLs
3. Notes — author expertise, potential biases, depth of coverage