Are there Exa search parameters that cannot be combined?

Two that matter. includeDomains and excludeDomains are mutually exclusive and sending both is a validation error, and type='keyword' supports neither of them nor useAutoprompt - only 'neural' and 'auto' do. Lyro picks the search type to match the filters a question actually needs.

Can Lyro treat Exa citations as verified sources?

Treat them as leads. Generate An Answer returns an answer field plus a citations field of supporting URLs, and Exa itself notes those citations can include low-credibility sources, so anything repeated as a factual claim should be checked against an authoritative reference first.

What happens when Exa cannot fetch one of the pages?

The call partially succeeds. Get Contents From URLs returns a per-item statuses array carrying errors such as CRAWL_NOT_FOUND, CRAWL_LIVECRAWL_TIMEOUT, and SOURCE_NOT_AVAILABLE, so Lyro can say which URLs failed rather than presenting a short result as the full picture.

How does Lyro get broader coverage than one search returns?

By issuing several. Exa's Search has no pagination, so wider coverage comes from varying the query or narrowing to different date windows rather than asking for page two. Where depth matters more than breadth, Create Research Task is the better route because it explores across sources on its own.

Exa MCP integration

Answers a question with citations, extracts full page text, builds Websets of lookalike pages, and runs async research tasks that return reports.

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Three actions you can hand over today

Every action runs live through MCP. Nothing to build, nothing to maintain.

Create research task
Lyro launches an async research task that explores the web, gathers sources, and synthesizes findings with citations. Hands you a comprehensive brief.
Generate an answer
Lyro synthesizes a direct, citation-backed answer to your question by reading relevant pages. Saves you from manual link-clicking and skimming.
Search
Lyro runs a web search with advanced filtering and AI-optimized prompting. Returns relevant results faster than raw search engine queries.

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How businesses use Exa + Lyro

Each card is one request a support team gets, and the Exa actions Lyro runs to close it.

Answer a factual question with sources attached
Lyro generates a direct answer with its citation list, or runs a filtered search and then pulls the full text and highlights from the URLs it returns, since search alone gives only snippets.
Generate An AnswerSearchGet Contents From URLs
Build a set of pages that look like this one
From a single URL, Lyro finds semantically similar pages using embeddings, then seeds a Webset with that search and uploads whatever data you already hold into the same collection.
Find SimilarCreate WebsetCreate Import
Commission a research report and collect it later
Lyro starts an asynchronous research task that gathers sources and synthesises findings, takes the researchId back immediately, and polls until the report or structured JSON is ready.
Create Research TaskGet Research TaskList Research Tasks
Keep a Webset refreshing on its own
Lyro schedules a Monitor so a Webset updates without a manual run, then reads the webhook registrations and the event history to confirm those updates actually fired.
Create A MonitorList WebhooksList Events

How it works

Get started in 3 steps

Connect once, then just ask. There is no workflow builder to learn and nothing to maintain — Lyro reads the Exa actions it has and picks the ones a request needs.

01
Connect Exa
Authorize the Exa account your team already uses — one consent screen, no API keys, no mapping tables. Lyro can only do what you granted that account, and you can disconnect it at any time.
02
Tell your agent what you need
Describe the job the way you would hand it to a teammate. Lyro maps it to the Exa actions that close it and chains as many as the request needs.
03
Watch it work
The agent runs the actions inside the conversation the customer is already in, so nobody copies data between tabs and your team can take over at any point.
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Everything else about Exa

Setup, permissions, and the limits of what Lyro can do inside Exa.

Two that matter. includeDomains and excludeDomains are mutually exclusive and sending both is a validation error, and type='keyword' supports neither of them nor useAutoprompt - only 'neural' and 'auto' do. Lyro picks the search type to match the filters a question actually needs.

Every action available in Exa

All 18 actions your agent can call on Exa, straight from the live MCP connection.

Generate an answer
Generates a direct, citation-backed answer to a clear natural language question or topic using Exa's search, adept at both specific answers and detailed summaries for open-ended queries.
Create import
Create a new import to upload data into a Webset.
Create a monitor
Create a new Monitor.
Create research task
Creates an asynchronous research task that explores the web, gathers sources, synthesizes findings, and returns results with citations.
Create webset
Create a new Webset with search, import, and enrichment setup.
Delete import
Delete an existing import.
Delete webset
Delete a Webset.
Find similar
Finds web pages semantically similar to a given URL using embeddings-based search, optionally retrieving full text, highlights, or summaries for results.
Get API key
Retrieve details of a specific API key by its ID.
Get contents from urls or document ids
Retrieves configurable text and highlights from a list of Exa document IDs or publicly accessible URLs.
Get event
Get details of a specific event by its ID.
Get research task
Retrieve the status and results of a previously created research task.
List events
List all events that have occurred in the system.
List imports
List all imports for the Webset.
List research tasks
Retrieve a paginated list of your research tasks.
List webhooks
List all webhooks for Websets.
Search
Performs a web search using the Exa engine, useful for queries requiring advanced filtering, specific content categories, or AI-optimized prompting.
Update import
Update an import configuration by ID.