exa: fix verify.py rejecting every API key (v5 / 1.0.4)
Activating Exa always failed with "Exa API key is invalid or unauthorized (HTTP 403)" — the key was never actually tested. Two bugs stacked: 1. mcp.exa.ai is behind Cloudflare, which bans urllib's default Python-urllib/3.x agent with 403 / "error code: 1010" before Exa sees the request. verify.py sent no User-Agent and mapped any 403 to "API key is invalid". Reproduced on the server with no key set at all — same "invalid key" message. 2. The probed endpoint cannot validate a key anyway: JSON-RPC initialize against the MCP endpoint returns 200 no matter what ?exaApiKey= carries (checked with a real key, a bogus key, and no key). Fixing only the headers would have flipped the bug to accepting every key, including garbage. With a key, the probe is now a minimal POST to api.exa.ai/search with the key in the x-api-key header — the only call that exercises the credential (200 valid, 401/403 + Exa JSON error invalid, 402 out of credits, 429 valid but throttled). With no key it probes MCP initialize and reports reachability only, never validity. Both requests send a User-Agent; the MCP one also sends Accept: application/json, text/event-stream (else HTTP 406). An opaque 401/403 with no Exa JSON error is now reported as "blocked before reaching the API — the key was not tested", instead of blaming the credential. Also re-aligns manifest/fragment versions to 5 / 1.0.4 (were 2/1.0.1 vs 4/1.0.3; skald reads installed_version from the manifest, so the update badge would never have appeared) and raises verify.timeout_secs 15 -> 20.
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{
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"id": "exa",
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"name": "Exa",
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"version": 2,
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"version_string": "1.0.1",
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"version_release_date": "2026-07-21",
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"version": 5,
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"version_string": "1.0.4",
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"version_release_date": "2026-08-20",
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"type": "mcp_remote",
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"scope": "global",
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"tags": [
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},
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"verify": {
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"command": "python3 verify.py",
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"timeout_secs": 15
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"timeout_secs": 20
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},
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"homepage": "https://exa.ai",
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"icon_small": "icon_sm.png",
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