Claude Exa connectorWhat Claude can do in your Exa account.
The Claude Exa connector exposes 2 tools. 1 searches the live web for Claude, 0 change anything in an account, 1 is undocumented. Here: what the search gives you, what stays unknown, and why Exa's docs list other tools than the sheet.
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What changes when Claude can search with Exa
Claude answers from what it already knows. With Exa plugged in, it can look things up on the web while it answers, read the pages that matter and build its reply on current sources. You ask in plain language; you get content, not a bare list of links. Useful when the answer depends on something published last week.
A fresh answer on a moving topic. You ask for the breaking changes in the latest release of a library your team uses, and web_search_exa brings back relevant, ready-to-use content from the web that Claude sums up for you.
A quick competitive scan. You want the public pricing pages of three rival tools compared side by side. Claude runs the searches itself and writes the comparison from what it found, with its sources.
Research inside a longer task. Exa says the connector works in Cowork too: during a longer task, Claude can search, read the pages that matter and keep using those sources as it goes.
Now the limits. The second tool, get_code_context_exa, is described by no official source, so this page says nothing about what it does. Nothing on the sheet changes an account. Without signing in, Exa serves you through keyless access, which is rate-limited. And nothing runs on its own: no search fires on a schedule or on an event. For recurring monitoring you want an automation tool, a different job; the Exa Make integration covers that side, and the Integrations hub lists the others.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will run into while plugging Exa in.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already have, so Claude can work in it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named thing a connector lets Claude do. Claude picks the ones it needs on its own, and the directory lists them by name.
- Authorization
- The sign-in screen of Exa itself, where you hand Claude the access it will use. Granted once per person, and you can take it back.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes ahead with something that changes your account, shown right in the chat.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as Exa.
Plug Exa into Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Exa in Claude
In Claude's settings, open Customize, then Connectors, and look for Exa in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to switch the connector on before each member can connect.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on the Exa row, then sign in to Exa in the window the service opens itself. If the link ever breaks, use Disconnect and plug it back in.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Read the authorization screen before you approve it. It belongs to Exa, not to Claude, and it decides what the access covers. You can also withdraw that access later from your Exa account.
The 2 tools of the Claude Exa connector
Exa gives Claude 2 tools: 1 that read your account, 0 that change something in it, and 1 no official source describes.
Two groups: what Claude looks up, and what no official source describes. The names stay the ones Claude shows, in English.
- 1 read
- 1 not documented
What Claude looks up (1)
1 toolOne search tool that reads the public web and changes nothing in your account.
web_search_exa
Runs a web search from your question and returns relevant content that is ready to use, which Claude then reads and cites in its answer. Exa enables it by default.
Undocumented (1)
1 toolThe directory publishes this name and nothing else. No official text says what it does, and this page will not guess from a name.
get_code_context_exa
This name appears on the directory sheet, and that is all anyone publishes about it. Exa's own documentation does not mention it, and no Claude page does either, so this page stops there.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before each action it carries out on an account for you. The request shows up in the conversation, at the moment it matters.
On a Team or Enterprise workspace, the owners decide whether a member can let some actions through without being asked every time. They can also limit what a connector may do for the whole organization, for instance keep reading open and close writing. That setting applies to everyone, and nobody gets around it from their own account. Claude also works with the access you grant to Exa and nothing more.
Which plans include it
Out of the 819 sheets in the official directory, not one shows availability by plan. The connector by connector answer is published nowhere: that is a real gap in the catalogue.
The general rule is public: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile, while desktop extensions install on Claude Desktop. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner turns the connector on for the organization before each member can connect. For the current status, check the Exa sheet in the official directory from your own account.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you: nothing starts when a page changes, news breaks or a schedule comes around.
This connector is documented only by its publisher: no Claude help page covers it. The tool list is an observed floor, not a promise, since an admin can open actions that no public sheet shows. The directory's partner badge is not a security audit either, and Anthropic says so on every sheet: it does not choose the tools a publisher exposes and does not guarantee they behave as announced. Plug in what comes from a publisher you trust, here Exa itself.
Which Exa tools does the connector give Claude?
- Claude directory sheet for Exa ↗read on 30 September 2026Two tools: web_search_exa and get_code_context_exa.
- Exa MCP documentation ↗read on 30 September 2026web_search_exa plus three other tools the sheet does not show, and no get_code_context_exa.
What this page followsThe two lists share only web_search_exa. Neither is marked stale. For Claude, the list that counts is the one on the directory sheet of your own account, so check it there rather than trusting Exa's page or this one.
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