View as Markdown
Exa icon

Exa ACTION

Answer Question

Generate grounded Exa answers with citations. Use this when you want an answer-shaped response instead of raw search results. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Read only
  • API key
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Exa account once, then configure and run Answer Question from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "exa-answer-question",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    exa: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    query: "Question",
    text: true,
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Answer Question inputs
Property Type Description
query Question string
The question or query to answer
Required
text Text boolean
Whether to include full text content from cited results in the response
Optional
systemPrompt System Prompt string
Instructions that guide Exa's synthesized output and, for deep search types, search planning.
Optional
outputSchema Output Schema object
JSON schema for structured output from Exa. Use this to shape synthesized search or answer output.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
exa-answer-question
Version
0.1.1
App
Exa
Authentication
API key
Read-only
Yes
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes