EVIDENCE, IN THE OPEN

What we know about
Exa.

Source documentation, connection attempts and task review are separate pieces of evidence. Each has its own scope.

01 · SOURCE

Source reviewed

Captured 10 Oct 2026, 07:21 UTC.

Metadata review establishes what was documented. It does not establish that a service worked.

02 · CONNECTION

Connection not observed

Latest attempt: Connection required. 12 Oct 2026, 20:27 UTC.

Applies only to the stated transport and adapter endpoint.

03 · TASK

Task not reviewed

No current explicit rubric review is available for a returned task output.

Independent quality verification: unavailable.

PUBLIC ATTEMPTS

The result, including blockers.

Curated internal live attempts using public inputs. These are separate from signed-in users’ private result histories. No automatic retries were made.

Connection required

Internal live attempt

12 Oct 2026, 20:27 UTC · Claims expire 11 Nov 2026, 20:27 UTC

Task / transport: web_search / MCP
Adapter endpoint used: https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp
Outcome code: PROVIDER_AUTH_REQUIRED
Time to failed attempt: 16 ms · not a latency benchmark
Payment sent / provider cost: $0 / unknown

Public input

Find the official Model Context Protocol Registry aggregator documentation and identify its metadata license.

No task output was returned. Task quality could not be assessed.

Provider documentation 1 ↗

SOURCE RECORD

Trace the documentation.

Published catalogue metadata compared with ToolSkipper's captured source review; not a connection or task test.

Official registry record ↗Provider documentation ↗

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How to read this evidence.

A source review is not a successful connection, security certification or endorsement.
Observations are curated internal live attempts on public inputs, not independent user evidence. Private benchmark records are never published here.
Connection and task claims expire 30 days after an observation and disappear when the listing no longer matches the reviewed source snapshot.
Each observation applies only to its stated task, input, transport and adapter endpoint; it does not establish other capabilities or current availability.
A failed attempt's duration is time to that failure, not a latency benchmark. No cross-provider or cross-language quality ranking is established.
No payment was sent for these observations. Provider billed cost was not measured and remains unknown.
An internal task review records explicit rubric judgments; it is not independent quality verification. External self-reports do not grant a badge.

A starting point, not a winner.

These observations do not establish a cross-provider or multilingual quality comparison. Successful output and explicit review are needed first.

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