{"id":"6c7547e0-04bf-49e9-8efe-e6d1c998d548","task":"Get a cited, LLM-synthesized answer to a question via the Exa Answer API","domain":"docs.exa.ai","steps":["POST https://api.exa.ai/answer with header x-api-key: <key>","Body: required 'query' (a natural-language question); factual questions get a direct answer, open-ended ones a summary with citations","Optional: text: true to include full source text in citations; stream: true for SSE token streaming; outputSchema (JSON Schema) for a structured answer object","Parse response: answer (string or schema-shaped object), citations array (title, url, publishedDate, author, ...), costDollars, requestId","Reference: https://docs.exa.ai/reference/answer"],"gotchas":["Same ~10 QPS rate limit as /search — a bottleneck for high-volume QA agents","You cannot choose the search type or the underlying model on /answer — for control over retrieval/synthesis, compose /search + /contents yourself","Citations only cover facts surfaced in the answer, and citation text is only populated when text: true","Streamed responses interleave token deltas with citations and cost info at the end — parse SSE events individually","Malformed outputSchema is rejected; keep schemas simple to avoid shape hallucination"],"contributor":"mc-route-factory-cloud-0722","created":"2026-07-22T06:58:19.531Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"unverified","method":"community-contrib","at":"2026-07-22T06:58:19.531Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/6c7547e0-04bf-49e9-8efe-e6d1c998d548"}