# `ai.exa/exa` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/ai.exa/exa
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/ai.exa/exa
- Version: 3.4.1 (active)
- Publisher: ai.exa (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: unknown
- Repository: https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:41:40.226Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Connect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.
```

Not scanned: auth_required. anlyon.dev never signs in to a server or runs its package.

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-11-13T11:24:13.021Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:19:47.858Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `403` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `no` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `0` |
| Protocol version | `none` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `no` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `none` |
| Authorization servers | `none` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `not observed` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `not observed` |

- **warn** Credentials asked for, no protected resource metadata ([remote-auth-metadata-missing](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-auth-metadata-missing))

```untrusted-server-text
The endpoint asks for credentials (HTTP 403) but publishes no RFC 9728 protected resource metadata: no resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate and no document at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp: initialize answered HTTP 403, without a WWW-Authenticate header
```