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Exa

Shanone’s Exa integration gives your agent 12 tools for neural/semantic search — going beyond keyword search with similarity search, direct answer generation, deep multi-step research, and asynchronous research agents.

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Getting Started

1

Get an Exa API key

Create an API key from the Exa dashboard.
2

Add the key in Shanone

Open Integrations in the Shanone dashboard, select Exa, and paste the API key.
3

Retry your request

Once saved, shanone_execute_tool calls for exa_* tools will succeed.

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Available Tools

Shanone provides 12 tools for Exa, organized into these categories:
exa_search, exa_find_similar, exa_get_contents, exa_answer, exa_deep_search
exa_agent_create, exa_agent_get, exa_agent_list, exa_agent_cancel, exa_agent_delete, exa_agent_events

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Common Use Cases

Grounded question answering

Use exa_answer to get a direct answer with cited sources instead of a raw results list

Competitive research

Find pages similar to a competitor’s site with exa_find_similar, then pull full content with exa_get_contents

Multi-step deep research

Kick off exa_deep_search or a research agent for a complex query that needs iterative exploration

Long-running background research

Create a research agent with exa_agent_create and poll exa_agent_events while it runs asynchronously

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Troubleshooting

Exa ranks by semantic meaning rather than keywords — phrase the query as a natural-language description of what you want, not a keyword string, and narrow with domain/date filters where supported.
Long-running research jobs created with exa_agent_create are asynchronous; poll exa_agent_get or exa_agent_events for status rather than expecting a synchronous result, and use exa_agent_cancel if it needs to be stopped.
Some pages block scraping or require JavaScript rendering that Exa’s content fetcher can’t execute; fall back to exa_search snippets or try exa_find_similar for an alternate source.