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Connect OpenClaw to Exa

Give an AI agent Exa as a tool and it can research the live web while it works, not just answer from memory. It can pull a cited answer to a question, find pages similar to a reference URL, fetch the full text of any page, and spin up Websets and research agent runs to gather sources on a topic on its own. Wire it into a coding agent in NoClick and web research becomes something the agent does mid-task instead of asking you to do it.
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Opens a workflow with 24 tools ready to use.

What happens next

Set up in minutes

The open button drops you into a guided setup. It asks exactly this, nothing else:
  1. Choose where it runs

    On your computer through your own OpenClaw, or hosted in the cloud. The rest of setup adapts to your choice:

  2. 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.

  3. Connect Exa

    One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to the operations you picked.

  4. 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

    $openclaw mcp add noclick --url https://mcp.noclick.app/s/<your-link>

    <your-link> is your personal server URL — setup mints it for you.

Exact capabilities

Tools OpenClaw gets

Pick the operations you want and each becomes a tool the agent can call directly while it works.

Exa

24 tools
Search

Search the web with Exa's neural/keyword/auto search.

Get Contents

Retrieve clean, LLM-ready parsed content for a list of URLs.

Answer

Get an LLM-generated answer grounded with citations from an Exa search.

Find Similar

Find pages semantically similar to a given URL.

Create Agent Run

Create an asynchronous Agent run for deep research, list-building, or enrichment.

Get Agent Run

Retrieve an Agent run by ID (status, output, citations).

List Agent Runs

Retrieve a paginated list of Agent runs for your team.

Cancel Agent Run

Cancel a queued or running Agent run.

Create Monitor

Create a Monitor that runs a recurring Exa search and delivers results to a webhook.

List Monitors

List all monitors for the authenticated team.

Get Monitor

Retrieve a single monitor by ID.

Update Monitor

Update an existing monitor (schedule, search config).

Delete Monitor

Delete a monitor (irreversible).

Trigger Monitor

Trigger a monitor run immediately regardless of schedule.

List Monitor Runs

List runs for a monitor (reverse-chronological).

Create Webset

Create a Webset (search + optional enrichment); begins processing automatically.

Get Webset

Retrieve a Webset by ID.

List Websets

List all Websets for the team.

Update Webset

Update a Webset's metadata/configuration.

Delete Webset

Delete a Webset.

List Webset Items

List the verified/enriched result items in a Webset.

Create Webset Enrichment

Add an enrichment column (extract/classify a field) to a Webset.

Create Webset Webhook

Register a webhook to receive Websets event notifications.

List Websets Events

List events that have occurred (webset/item/enrichment lifecycle).

Starting points

What you can build

When an Exa monitor turns up new results on a topic you track, start a workflow that summarizes them and posts the findings to your team.
Answer an inbound research question by calling the Answer operation and returning the response with its cited sources.
Hand the node a competitor's page and use Find Similar to surface comparable companies or articles, then collect them into a Webset.
Feed a list of URLs to Get Contents to pull full page text, then run it through an AI step to extract the fields you care about.
Create a Webset from a search query, list its items once Exa has filled it, and sync the results into a spreadsheet or CRM.
Create an agent run to kick off a deeper research task, then act on the results once the run finishes.

Meet the runner

About OpenClaw

OpenClaw is an open command-line agent. NoClick runs it hosted and lets you connect your apps to it as tools, so it can take real actions across your systems. Wire an integration into the agent and OpenClaw can call that app’s operations directly. It is a good fit when you want an open, no-fuss agent with real tool access and nothing to install.
Open and approachable
Simple to point at a task
Solid general tool use
Hosted, with nothing to install

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Make it yours

Open your OpenClaw agent in one click.

NoClick runs OpenClaw for you with Exa wired in as tools. Connect your account and run.