Exa Search MCP for DeepSeek Harness v0.1.0
Third-party plugin bundle: mounts Exa's hosted MCP endpoint (https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp) into DeepSeek Harness through the in-box @deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client bridge.
Features
- Pure configuration bundle (one patch layer, no runtime code, no build step)
- Auto-auth:
x-api-keysent only whenEXA_API_KEYis set; graceful anonymous fallback - Tools registered as
mcp__exa__web_search_exa,mcp__exa__web_fetch_exa(+ advanced/agent via?tools=whitelist) toolCallTimeoutMs: 180000tuned for research workloads
Install
dsh plugin --profile web add github:MicroHEROX/dsh-exa-mcp
# or overlay:
dsh web --patch path/to/cordis.patch.ymlVerified (2026-08-14, dsh 0.1.0-rc.6)
- Anonymous + API-key modes, real tool calls end-to-end (search/fetch/advanced/agent_run)
- headless + web UI full interaction; install / uninstall / reinstall; GitHub-install behavior
- Docs: Project / Glossary / API reference / Solutions & pitfalls (all in
docs/)
Notes
agent_runrequires an API key +?tools=whitelist and is usage-billeddocs/is never installed into the runtime environment (pnpmfilespackaging)