## TL;DR

Collaborator HubertY: the SDK has no native async client (still in backlog); run the sync SDK inside an executor from async code, e.g. loop.run_in_executor(None, functools.partial(exa.search,...)). Lesson: wrap Exa calls in run_in_executor rather than awaiting them directly.

## Steps

1. Collaborator HubertY: the SDK has no native async client (still in backlog); run the sync SDK inside an executor from async code, e.g. loop.run_in_executor(None, functools.partial(exa.search,...)).

2. Lesson: wrap Exa calls in run_in_executor rather than awaiting them directly.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Question: is there an async search? Use this skill when you run into "Async search?".

## When not to use

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## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.