crawling_exa — Exa Search MCP Tool
crawling_exa
(crawling exa) is one of 4 tools on the
Exa Search
MCP server. Connect the server and your client discovers it on the handshake.
by client
How to call crawling_exa from your client
- Claude Code Exa Search crawling_exa run in your project directory
- Claude Desktop Exa Search crawling_exa ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
- Cursor Exa Search crawling_exa ~/.cursor/mcp.json
- VS Code Exa Search crawling_exa .vscode/mcp.json
- Zed Exa Search crawling_exa ~/.config/zed/settings.json
- Windsurf Exa Search crawling_exa ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json
Fastest route
claude mcp add exa-mcp-server -e EXA_API_KEY=<EXA_API_KEY> -- npx -y exa-mcp-serverOther tools on this server
Mutating and Read-only are read off each tool's name, not its schema — a hint, not a guarantee. The registry stores tool names only; connect the server for its live schemas.