Exa AI MCP Server for OpenAI Agents SDKGive OpenAI Agents SDK instant access to 12 tools to Advanced Custom Search, Extract Page Content, Find Similar Pages, and more

Name: Exa AI
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The OpenAI Agents SDK enables production-grade agent workflows in Python. Connect Exa AI through Vinkius and your agents gain typed, auto-discovered tools with built-in guardrails. no manual schema definitions required.

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The Exa AI MCP Server for OpenAI Agents SDK is a standout in the Ai Frontier category — giving your AI agent 12 tools to work with, ready to go from day one.

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import asyncio
from agents import Agent, Runner
from agents.mcp import MCPServerStreamableHttp

async def main():
    # Your Vinkius token. get it at cloud.vinkius.com
    async with MCPServerStreamableHttp(
        url="https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    ) as mcp_server:

        agent = Agent(
            name="Exa AI Assistant",
            instructions=(
                "You help users interact with Exa AI. "
                "You have access to 12 tools."
            ),
            mcp_servers=[mcp_server],
        )

        result = await Runner.run(
            agent, "List all available tools from Exa AI"
        )
        print(result.final_output)

asyncio.run(main())

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About Exa AI MCP Server

Connect your Exa AI (formerly Metaphor) account to any AI agent and take full control of your web research and data extraction workflows through natural conversation.

The OpenAI Agents SDK auto-discovers all 12 tools from Exa AI through native MCP integration. Build agents with built-in guardrails, tracing, and handoff patterns. chain multiple agents where one queries Exa AI, another analyzes results, and a third generates reports, all orchestrated through Vinkius.

What you can do

Semantic Search Orchestration — Perform AI-native searches that understand intent and meaning to retrieve the most relevant web pages programmatically
Content Intelligence — Programmatically extract clean, parsed text or highlights from any URL, excluding ads and boilerplate automatically
Similarity Discovery — Find pages semantically similar to a source URL to build comprehensive and high-fidelity research datasets
Deep Data Mapping — Discover all reachable links on a domain and retrieve discovery metadata to understand site structures programmatically
Search Filtering — Restricted searches by domain, category (company, blog, news), or discovery date directly through your agent

The Exa AI MCP Server exposes 12 tools through the Vinkius. Connect it to OpenAI Agents SDK in under two minutes — credentials fully managed, no infrastructure to provision, no vendor lock-in. Your configuration, your data, your control.

All 12 Exa AI tools available for OpenAI Agents SDK

When OpenAI Agents SDK connects to Exa AI through Vinkius, your AI agent gets direct access to every tool listed below — spanning neural-search, semantic-search, content-intelligence, and more. Every call runs in a secure, isolated environment with full audit visibility. Beyond a simple connection, you get real-time monitoring of agent activity, enterprise governance, and optimized token usage.

advanced

Advanced custom search on Exa AI

Complex search query

extract

Extract page content on Exa AI

Retrieve web page text

find

Find similar pages on Exa AI

Find matches for a URL

get

Get api status on Exa AI

Check connection

get

Get query highlights on Exa AI

Extract relevant snippets

keyword

Keyword search on Exa AI

Search by exact keywords

perform

Perform live crawl on Exa AI

Fresh web extraction

Search by category on Exa AI

Search by site type

Search by crawl date on Exa AI

Search by discovery date

Search specific domains on Exa AI

Search within sites

Search with contents on Exa AI

Search and extract text

semantic

Semantic search on Exa AI

Perform AI-native search

Connect Exa AI to OpenAI Agents SDK via MCP

Follow these steps to wire Exa AI into OpenAI Agents SDK. The entire setup takes under two minutes — your credentials stay safe behind Vinkius.

Install the SDK

Run pip install openai-agents in your Python environment

Replace the token

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your Vinkius token from cloud.vinkius.com

Run the script

Save the code above and run it: python agent.py

Explore tools

The agent will automatically discover 12 tools from Exa AI

Why Use OpenAI Agents SDK with the Exa AI MCP Server

OpenAI Agents SDK provides unique advantages when paired with Exa AI through the Model Context Protocol.

Native MCP integration via `MCPServerSse`, pass the URL and the SDK auto-discovers all tools with full type safety

Built-in guardrails, tracing, and handoff patterns let you build production-grade agents without reinventing safety infrastructure

Lightweight and composable: chain multiple agents and MCP servers in a single pipeline with minimal boilerplate

First-party OpenAI support ensures optimal compatibility with GPT models for tool calling and structured output

Exa AI + OpenAI Agents SDK Use Cases

Practical scenarios where OpenAI Agents SDK combined with the Exa AI MCP Server delivers measurable value.

Automated workflows: build agents that query Exa AI, process the data, and trigger follow-up actions autonomously

Multi-agent orchestration: create specialist agents. one queries Exa AI, another analyzes results, a third generates reports

Data enrichment pipelines: stream data through Exa AI tools and transform it with OpenAI models in a single async loop

Customer support bots: agents query Exa AI to resolve tickets, look up records, and update statuses without human intervention

Example Prompts for Exa AI in OpenAI Agents SDK

Ready-to-use prompts you can give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent to start working with Exa AI immediately.

"Search for the latest research on room-temperature superconductors using Exa."

"Find pages similar to 'https://openai.com/blog/sora/' from news domains."

"Get the clean text content from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence'."

Troubleshooting Exa AI MCP Server with OpenAI Agents SDK

Common issues when connecting Exa AI to OpenAI Agents SDK through Vinkius, and how to resolve them.

MCPServerStreamableHttp not found

Ensure you have the latest version: pip install --upgrade openai-agents

Agent not calling tools

Make sure your prompt explicitly references the task the tools can help with.

Exa AI + OpenAI Agents SDK FAQ

Common questions about integrating Exa AI MCP Server with OpenAI Agents SDK.

How does the OpenAI Agents SDK connect to MCP?

Use MCPServerSse(url=...) to create a server connection. The SDK auto-discovers all tools and makes them available to your agent with full type information.