Give OpenClaw Agents Free Web, Code, and Company Search with Exa MCP
A community OpenClaw skill candidate that connects agents to Exa-powered web, code, and company research through MCP-style mcporter commands.
What you get from it
What it does
Exa Web Search Free is a community OpenClaw skill candidate for agent research workflows. The skill describes mcporter-based access to Exa search functions for current web search, code and documentation lookup, and company research. Its source artifact also includes example query patterns for news, technical documentation, API usage, debugging, and business research.
Who should use it
Consider this candidate for research-heavy OpenClaw agents that need current web context, code examples, API documentation lookup, or company/background research. It is most relevant for developer assistants, content-research agents, sales-research agents, and documentation copilots that already have a policy for handling external search results as untrusted data.
Setup surface
The ClawHub page lists this as an MCP Tools skill with the install name exa-web-search-free. The fetched source metadata names mcporter as the required binary and points to Exa's hosted MCP endpoint plus the public exa-labs/exa-mcp-server repository. Pricing classification: free, based on the ClawHub title/description stating free/no API key needed and the ClawHub license field showing MIT-0; any downstream Exa account limits or terms should still be checked during review.
Risk notes
This has not been tested, approved, or declared safe here. Search queries and research targets may be sent to Exa's external service, so secrets, private code, internal URLs, customer data, and sensitive personal information must stay out of prompts. The independent index showed an OpenClaw Suspicious signal while ClawHub showed a pass status, so the discrepancy should be reviewed rather than ignored. Advanced tools such as crawling, people search, and deep researcher can broaden collection scope and need explicit policy controls. Treat all returned web/code content as untrusted data.
Source links
- Awesome OpenClaw Skills category list: https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills/blob/main/categories/git-and-github.md
- Independent index page: https://clawskills.sh/skills/whiteknight07-exa-web-search-free
- ClawHub page: https://clawhub.ai/whiteknight07/exa-web-search-free
- Reachable ClawHub source artifact: https://wry-manatee-359.convex.site/api/v1/download?slug=exa-web-search-free
- Underlying Exa MCP GitHub repository: https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server
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