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Exa Search

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Get an API key

velaclaw configure --section web

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Config

{
  plugins: {
    entries: {
      exa: {
        config: {
          webSearch: {
            apiKey: "exa-...", // optional if EXA_API_KEY is set
          },
        },
      },
    },
  },
  tools: {
    web: {
      search: {
        provider: "exa",
      },
    },
  },
}

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Tool parameters

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Content extraction

await web_search({
  query: "transformer architecture explained",
  type: "neural",
  contents: {
    text: true, // full page text
    highlights: { numSentences: 3 }, // key sentences
    summary: true, // AI summary
  },
});

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Search modes

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Notes

• If no contents option is provided, Exa defaults to { highlights: true } so results include key sentence excerpts
• Results preserve highlightScores and summary fields from the Exa API response when available
• Result descriptions are resolved from highlights first, then summary, then full text — whichever is available
• freshness and date_after/date_before cannot be combined — use one time-filter mode
• Up to 100 results can be returned per query (subject to Exa search-type limits)
• Results are cached for 15 minutes by default (configurable via cacheTtlMinutes)
• Exa is an official API integration with structured JSON responses

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Related

• Web Search overview — all providers and auto-detection
• Brave Search — structured results with country/language filters
• Perplexity Search — structured results with domain filtering