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Exa Setup — Development skill for Claude Code

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Set up the Exa plugin — add the MCP server and connect it in Cursor.

How to install Exa Setup

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/exa-labs-exa-cursor-plugin-exa-setup/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/exa-labs-exa-cursor-plugin-exa-setup && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/exa-labs/exa-cursor-plugin/HEAD/commands/exa-setup.md -o ~/.claude/skills/exa-labs-exa-cursor-plugin-exa-setup/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Exa Setup does

name: exa-setup description: Set up the Exa plugin — add the MCP server and connect it in Cursor

Exa Plugin Setup

You (the AI) must:

Add the following MCP config to the project's .cursor/mcp.json file (create it if it doesn't exist):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exa": {
      "url": "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

After adding the config, verify setup by checking if web_search_exa is available in your tool list.

Request the user to:

Open **Cursor

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Full documentation available on GitHub

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