exa-reliability-patterns

name	exa-reliability-patterns
description	Implement Exa reliability patterns: query fallback chains, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation. Use when building fault-tolerant Exa integrations, implementing fallback strategies, or adding resilience to production search services. Trigger with phrases like "exa reliability", "exa circuit breaker", "exa fallback", "exa resilience", "exa graceful degradation".
allowed-tools	Read, Write, Edit
version	1.11.0
license	MIT
author	Jeremy Longshore <[e-mail]>
tags	["saas","exa","reliability","resilience"]
compatibility	Designed for Claude Code, also compatible with Codex and OpenClaw

Exa Reliability Patterns

Overview

Production reliability patterns for Exa neural search. Exa-specific failure modes include: empty result sets (query too narrow), content retrieval failures (sites block crawling), variable latency by search type, and 429 rate limits at 10 QPS default.

Instructions

Step 1: Query Fallback Chain

import Exa from "exa-js";

const exa = new Exa(process.env.EXA_API_KEY);

// If neural search returns too few results, fall back through search types
async function resilientSearch(
  query: string,
  minResults = 3,
  opts: any = {}
) {
  // Try 1: Neural search (best quality)
  let results = await exa.searchAndContents(query, {
    type: "neural",
    numResults: 10,
    ...opts,
  });
  if (results.results.length >= minResults) return results;

  // Try 2: Auto search (Exa picks best approach)
  results = await exa.searchAndContents(query, {
    type: "auto",
    numResults: 10,
    ...opts,
  });
  if (results.results.length >= minResults) return results;

  // Try 3: Keyword search (different index)
  results =  exa.(query, {
    : ,
    : ,
    ...opts,
  });
   (results.. >= minResults)  results;

  
   broadOpts = { ...opts };
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   exa.(query, {
    : ,
    : ,
    ...broadOpts,
  });
}