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Connect Exa to Goose

Give Goose governed access to Exa’s 3 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Exa to Goose in four steps

Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Goose then gets it through the same governed connection.

  1. 1

    Approve Exa in Runlayer

    Add Exa from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.

  2. 2

    Connect Goose to Runlayer

    Users add the Runlayer Plugin as a Goose extension; Goose has no native plugin install. Goose reaches Exa’s 3 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.

    Goose setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Exa

    Sign in the way Exa requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Exa from Goose

    Exa’s approved tools appear in Goose. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

3 Exa tools in Goose

Runlayer policy decides which of these Goose users can call. 1 read data only.

  • Agent run

    Start or resume an Exa Agent run for multi-step research, list-building, or enrichment.

  • Web fetch Exa

    Read a webpage's full content as clean markdown.

  • Web search Exa

    Search the web for any topic and get clean, ready-to-use content.

Control

What Runlayer can see and stop in Goose

Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Goose exposes to Runlayer.

  • Gateway policy (available)

    Every Exa call from Goose passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.

  • Audit trail (available)

    Each call is recorded with the user, Goose as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.

  • Client hooks (available)

    Capture supported prompts, reasoning, local and MCP tool calls, responses, and scanner decisions in real time.

  • Stop a call before it runs (available)

    Runlayer can deny a tool call before Goose runs it.

  • Block output after it runs (available)

    Runlayer can block a tool’s output before Goose’s model sees it.

  • Redact output in place (not available)

    Goose cannot apply masking, so Runlayer blocks output it would otherwise mask. The gateway still applies policy to the call.

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