mcp-server-exa-search
Zed extension for Exa's MCP server
exa-labs
README
mcp-server-exa-search
Zed extension that wraps the exa-mcp-server package from exa-labs/exa-mcp-server. This extension supports both web search functionality and retrieval of web page contents.
Features
The Exa MCP server provides these tools for Zed:
- web_search: Performs real-time web searches with optimized results and content extraction
- crawling: Extracts content from specific URLs, useful for reading articles, PDFs, or any web page
Configuration
This MCP server requires an API key.
- Sign up for an Exa API account
- Generate your API key from dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys
In your Zed settings:
{
"context_servers": {
"mcp-server-exa-search": {
"settings": {
"exa_api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
}
}
}
}
Agent Mode Configuration
If you're using Zed's agent mode, you need to enable this context server for your assistant:
- Open Zed's assistant settings
- Enable the exa MCP tool. If you see that the status of the tool is a red dot, make sure you added your exa api key in settings
- Enable the exa MCP tool in the active assistant profile. In the chat section, click on the 'Write|Ask' button, then click on 'tools', then enable the exa MCP tool.
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