product · inferred from evidence
exa-mcp-server
Local install of the MCP server that fails to start due to the shebang issue.
- company_research_exa returns 112k+ characters, too large for Claude Code
Calling the `company_research_exa` tool from the Exa MCP server in Claude Code returns 112k+ characters of JSON (overview, financials, workforce, salaries), which blows the context window and makes the result unusable in agentic workflows.
- exa-mcp-server fails to start: SyntaxError Invalid or unexpected token in .smithery/index.cjs
Running `bunx exa-mcp-server@latest` fails immediately with `SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token` at `.smithery/index.cjs:2`, pointing at the `#!/usr/bin/env node` line. The shebang ended up on the second line of the published file ins