Connect OpenClaw to Exa
What happens next
Set up in minutes
Choose where it runs
On your computer through your own OpenClaw, or hosted in the cloud. The rest of setup adapts to your choice:
Pick what it can do in Exa
A preset of real Exa operations. Each one becomes a tool the agent can call, and it can't touch anything outside the list.
Connect Exa
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to the operations you picked.
Add your personal MCP link
The last step mints a private MCP URL for this agent and walks you through exactly this, with your real link filled in. The page flips to Connected the moment your OpenClaw first calls in. OpenClaw probes the server while adding it, so this lights up during openclaw mcp add.
Run this in your terminal
<your-link> is your personal server URL — setup mints it for you.
Exact capabilities
Tools OpenClaw gets
Exa
24 toolsSearch the web with Exa's neural/keyword/auto search.
Retrieve clean, LLM-ready parsed content for a list of URLs.
Get an LLM-generated answer grounded with citations from an Exa search.
Find pages semantically similar to a given URL.
Create an asynchronous Agent run for deep research, list-building, or enrichment.
Retrieve an Agent run by ID (status, output, citations).
Retrieve a paginated list of Agent runs for your team.
Cancel a queued or running Agent run.
Create a Monitor that runs a recurring Exa search and delivers results to a webhook.
List all monitors for the authenticated team.
Retrieve a single monitor by ID.
Update an existing monitor (schedule, search config).
Delete a monitor (irreversible).
Trigger a monitor run immediately regardless of schedule.
List runs for a monitor (reverse-chronological).
Create a Webset (search + optional enrichment); begins processing automatically.
Retrieve a Webset by ID.
List all Websets for the team.
Update a Webset's metadata/configuration.
Delete a Webset.
List the verified/enriched result items in a Webset.
Add an enrichment column (extract/classify a field) to a Webset.
Register a webhook to receive Websets event notifications.
List events that have occurred (webset/item/enrichment lifecycle).
Starting points
What you can build
Meet the runner
About OpenClaw
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
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