exa

name	exa
description	Manage Exa AI via CLI - search, contents, answer, context. Use when user mentions 'exa', 'web search', 'find similar pages', 'ai answer', or wants to interact with the Exa API.
category	web-search

exa-cli

Setup

If exa-cli is not found, install and build it:

bun --version || curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash
npx api2cli bundle exa
npx api2cli link exa

api2cli link adds ~/.local/bin to PATH automatically. The CLI is available in the next command.

Always use --json flag when calling commands programmatically.

Authentication

exa-cli auth set "your-token"
exa-cli auth test

Resources

search

Command	Description
exa-cli search query --query "latest AI research" --json	Search web with natural language query
exa-cli search query --query "best React frameworks" --type neural --num-results 5 --json	Neural search with custom result count
exa-cli search query --query "SpaceX news" --type keyword --json	Keyword-based search