Exa - Veryfront

At a glance

Availability: Experimental (how to enable).
Authentication: API key.
Connection: The key from EXA_API_KEY is sent as the x-api-key header.
Provider documentation: Authentication reference.

Credentials

Set these per environment. See Connect an integration.

Variable	Required	Description
`EXA_API_KEY`	Yes	Exa API key from the Exa dashboard Docs.

Setup

Create an Exa account: Go to https://dashboard.exa.ai and sign up - new accounts include free credits for testing.
Create an API key: Open https://dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys and create a key with a descriptive name (e.g. ‘Veryfront Integration’).
Store the key: Add it to your .env file as EXA_API_KEY=…
Verify access: Run the Search tool with a simple query. A 401 means the key is invalid; a 402 means you are out of credits.

Provider notes

All endpoints are billed per request from your credit balance; Answer also incurs LLM generation cost
Deep search types cost more than fast/instant - use type ‘auto’ unless you need depth

Provider API reference.

Tools

Tool	Access	Description
Search `exa__search`	Read	Search the web with Exa’s neural and keyword search
Get Contents `exa__get_contents`	Read	Get parsed page contents, summaries, and metadata for a list of URLs
Find Similar Links `exa__find_similar`	Read	Find pages similar in meaning to a given URL
Answer `exa__answer`	Write	Get an LLM-generated answer to a question grounded in Exa search results with citations

Verify the connection

Call a read tool such as exa__search with arguments for your account. Confirm that the result comes from the intended account or workspace before enabling write tools.