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The OpenAI Agents SDK enables production-grade agent workflows in Python. Connect Exa 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 app connector for OpenAI Agents SDK is a standout in the Ai Frontier category — giving your AI agent 10 tools to work with, ready to go from day one.

Vinkius delivers Streamable HTTP and SSE to any MCP client

python
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 Assistant",
            instructions=(
                "You help users interact with Exa. "
                "You have access to 10 tools."
            ),
            mcp_servers=[mcp_server],
        )

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

asyncio.run(main())
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About Exa MCP Server

Connect Exa (formerly Metaphor) to any AI agent and simplify how you discover relevant web data, research topics using neural embeddings, and extract cleaned content through natural conversation.

The OpenAI Agents SDK auto-discovers all 10 tools from Exa through native MCP integration. Build agents with built-in guardrails, tracing, and handoff patterns. chain multiple agents where one queries Exa, another analyzes results, and a third generates reports, all orchestrated through Vinkius.

What you can do

  • Neural Search — Perform AI-powered searches that understand the meaning and intent of your query, not just keywords.
  • Semantic Similarity — Find web pages and articles that are semantically similar to a specific seed URL.
  • Content Extraction — Fetch cleaned, readable text and metadata from multiple URLs or page IDs in a single request.
  • Research Automation — Discover high-quality sources and analyze web content programmatically via AI.
  • Data Insights — retrieve comprehensive metadata for search results to identify top-performing resources.
  • Intelligent Discovery — Use 'Autoprompt' to automatically optimize your queries for neural search accuracy.

The Exa MCP Server exposes 10 tools through the Vinkius. Connect it to OpenAI Agents SDK in under two minutes — no API keys to rotate, no infrastructure to provision, no vendor lock-in. Your configuration, your data, your control.

All 10 Exa tools available for OpenAI Agents SDK

When OpenAI Agents SDK connects to Exa through Vinkius, your AI agent gets direct access to every tool listed below — spanning neural-search, semantic-similarity, web-data, and more. Every call is secured with network, filesystem, subprocess, and code evaluation entitlements inside a sandboxed runtime. Beyond a simple connection, you get a full AI Gateway with real-time visibility into agent activity, enterprise governance, and optimized token usage.

answer

Get an AI answer

find_similar

Great for competitive analysis and research. Find similar pages

find_similar_with_contents

Find similar pages with content

get_contents

Extract page contents

search

Returns titles, URLs, and relevance scores for matching pages. Search the web with AI

search_domain

Useful for site-specific research or documentation lookups. Search within a domain

search_keyword

Traditional keyword search

search_neural

Ideal for conceptual queries and research topics. Neural semantic search

search_recent

Ideal for news and trending topics. Search recent content

search_with_contents

Search and extract page content

Connect Exa to OpenAI Agents SDK via MCP

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

01

Install the SDK

Run pip install openai-agents in your Python environment
02

Replace the token

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your Vinkius token from cloud.vinkius.com
03

Run the script

Save the code above and run it: python agent.py
04

Explore tools

The agent will automatically discover 10 tools from Exa

Why Use OpenAI Agents SDK with the Exa MCP Server

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

01

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

02

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

03

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

04

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

Exa + OpenAI Agents SDK Use Cases

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

01

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

02

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

03

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

04

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

Example Prompts for Exa in OpenAI Agents SDK

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

01

"Neural search for 'the latest breakthroughs in room-temperature superconductors'."

02

"Find 5 links similar to 'https://openai.com/blog/instruction-following'."

03

"Extract the cleaned text content from 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752'."

Troubleshooting Exa MCP Server with OpenAI Agents SDK

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

01

MCPServerStreamableHttp not found

Ensure you have the latest version: pip install --upgrade openai-agents
02

Agent not calling tools

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

Exa + OpenAI Agents SDK FAQ

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

01

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.
02

Can I use multiple MCP servers in one agent?

Yes. Pass a list of MCPServerSse instances to the agent constructor. The agent can use tools from all connected servers within a single run.
03

Does the SDK support streaming responses?

Yes. The SDK supports SSE and Streamable HTTP transports, both of which work natively with Vinkius.