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Exa Search for VS Code

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Neural web search built for agents: web search with live crawling, code-context search, company research and page crawling. Needs an Exa API key.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm tools:4

Install Exa Search in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json 

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "exa-api-key",
      "description": "EXA_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "exa-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "exa-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EXA_API_KEY": "${input:exa-api-key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

What VS Code can do once it is connected

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