Exa Team and Enterprise Access Governance

Overview

Govern Exa membership, API and service keys, team budgets, MCP OAuth, and enterprise managed authorization through least privilege and revocation evidence. Treat credentials, queries, retrieved content, generated output, spend, and destructive state as separately governed boundaries.

Prerequisites

• The target repository, environment, Exa team, product surface, and accountable owner.
• The workload's data classification, latency and freshness promise, cost ceiling, and retention policy.
• Current first-party documentation plus credentials only for a narrowly approved live check.

Current Contract

Exa teams own usage and plan features; team admins invite members. Team Management is separately enabled and uses service keys to manage API keys. Enterprise managed authorization for Claude follows Okta directory state for eligible organizations, uses auth.exa.ai and mcp.exa.ai/mcp with scope mcp:tools, and does not create users.

Authentication

For normal REST work, inject EXA_API_KEY from an approved server-side secret manager and send it only as Authorization: Bearer to the configured first-party Exa API host. Team Management service keys, hosted MCP OAuth or enterprise managed authorization, and payment-protocol calls are separate trust models. Never print, commit, place in a URL, or expose a credential to an untrusted client.