Web Search Advanced - Research Paper Category

Tool Restriction (Critical)

ONLY use web_search_advanced_exa with category: "research paper" . Do NOT use other categories or tools.

Full Filter Support

The research paper category supports ALL available parameters:

Core

• query (required)

• numResults

• type ("auto", "fast", "deep", "neural")

Domain filtering

• includeDomains (e.g., ["arxiv.org", "openreview.net"])

• excludeDomains

Date filtering (ISO 8601)

• startPublishedDate / endPublishedDate

• startCrawlDate / endCrawlDate

Text filtering

• includeText (must contain ALL)

• excludeText (exclude if ANY match)

Array size restriction: includeText and excludeText only support single-item arrays. Multi-item arrays (2+ items) cause 400 errors. To match multiple terms, put them in the query string or run separate searches.

Content extraction

• textMaxCharacters / contextMaxCharacters

• enableSummary / summaryQuery

• enableHighlights / highlightsNumSentences / highlightsPerUrl / highlightsQuery

Additional

• userLocation

• moderation

• additionalQueries

• livecrawl / livecrawlTimeout

• subpages / subpageTarget

Token Isolation (Critical)

Never run Exa searches in main context. Always spawn Task agents:

• Agent calls web_search_advanced_exa with category: "research paper"

• Agent merges + deduplicates results before presenting

• Agent returns distilled output (brief markdown or compact JSON)

• Main context stays clean regardless of search volume

When to Use

Use this category when you need:

• Academic papers from arXiv, OpenReview, PubMed, etc.

• Scientific research on specific topics

• Literature reviews with date filtering

• Papers containing specific methodologies or terms

Examples

Recent papers on a topic:

web_search_advanced_exa { "query": "transformer attention mechanisms efficiency", "category": "research paper", "startPublishedDate": "2024-01-01", "numResults": 15, "type": "auto" }

Papers from specific venues:

web_search_advanced_exa { "query": "large language model agents", "category": "research paper", "includeDomains": ["arxiv.org", "openreview.net"], "includeText": ["LLM"], "numResults": 20, "type": "deep" }

Output Format

Return:

• Results (structured list with title, authors, date, abstract summary)

• Sources (URLs with publication venue)

• Notes (methodology differences, conflicting findings)