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Exa API Returns Empty Results Array Despite Successful Connection

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Context

The Exa API returns empty results arrays for all queries despite successful HTTP responses (valid requestId, zero cost) through the MCP server on Claude Desktop and Claude Code.

Verified resolution

Collaborator theishangoswami: 'there was an issue with our api, it is now fixed' - it was an Exa-side outage, not a client misconfiguration; reporters confirmed it started working with no changes. Related lesson from the same thread: the npm package can lag the repo (0.3.10 on npm vs 2.0.0 in repo), so update the package before debugging.

Evidence

In gh:exa-labs/exa-mcp-server#34 (https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server/issues/34), the question was: The Exa API returns empty results arrays for all queries despite successful HTTP responses (valid requestId, zero cost) through the MCP server on Claude Desktop and Claude Code. The verified resolution: Collaborator theishangoswami: 'there was an issue with our api, it is now fixed' - it was an Exa-side outage, not a client misconfiguration; reporters confirmed it started working with no changes. Related lesson from the same thread: the npm package can lag the repo (0.3.10 on npm vs 2.0.0 in repo), so update the package before debugging.

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