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An AI teammate for Exa.

Connect Exa and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 14 Exa actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about Exa
  • What changed in Exa this week compared with last week?
  • Pull these numbers from Exa into a sheet and chart them.
  • Text me if the daily figure in Exa drops by more than 20%.
  • Build me a Monday summary from Exa.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Exa

14 Exa actions, picked for what you ask.

About Exa: Exa focuses on data extraction and search, helping teams gather, analyze, and visualize information from websites, APIs, or internal databases

Reads

8 in all · always allowed
  • Search
    Performs a web search using the Exa engine, useful for queries requiring advanced filtering,…
  • List events
    List all events that have occurred in the system. use when you need to paginate through the event…
  • Find similar
    Finds web pages semantically similar to a given url using embeddings-based search, optionally…
  • List imports
    List all imports for the webset. use when you need to paginate through and monitor import jobs.
  • Generate an answer
    Generates a direct, citation-backed answer to a clear natural language question or topic using…
  • Get contents from URLs or document IDs
    Retrieves configurable text and highlights from a list of Exa document ids or publicly accessible…
  • Get Event
    Get details of a specific event by its id. use when you have an event id and need its full details.
  • List webhooks
    List all webhooks for websets. use when you need to view existing webhooks and paginate through…

Changes

6 in all · off when Exa is read-only
  • Create Import
    Create a new import to upload data into a webset. use when you need to initialize an import before…
  • Create Webset
    Create a new webset with search, import, and enrichment setup.
  • Delete webset
    Delete a webset. use after confirming the webset id to permanently remove the webset and all its…
  • Create a Monitor
    Create a new monitor. use when you need to schedule automated updates for a webset without manual…
  • Delete import
    Delete an existing import. use when you need to permanently remove an import by its id.
  • Update import
    Update an import configuration by id. use when you need to modify an import's title or metadata.

Showing 14 of 14. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Exa

    Open Connections, find Exa and paste an API key from your Exa account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Exa with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Exa job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Exa, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

Exa and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Exa?

Yes. Exa is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Exa?

Open Connections, find Exa and paste an API key from your Exa account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Exa?

14 actions: 8 that read from Exa and 6 that change things in it, for example search, list events, find similar. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Exa?

Yes. In Connections, set Exa to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Exa from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Exa jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Exa data safe?

Your Exa login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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