Lean hybrid search

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.get-exo.com/v1/search \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-Exo-API-Key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "query": "<string>"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.get-exo.com/v1/search"

payload = { "query": "<string>" }
headers = {
    "X-Exo-API-Key": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'X-Exo-API-Key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({query: '<string>'})
};

fetch('https://api.get-exo.com/v1/search', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

{
  "results": [
    {
      "chunk": "<string>",
      "score": 123,
      "nodeId": "<string>",
      "title": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "usage": {
    "embedTokens": 123,
    "readUnits": 123
  }
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

POST

Lean hybrid search

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.get-exo.com/v1/search \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-Exo-API-Key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "query": "<string>"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.get-exo.com/v1/search"

payload = { "query": "<string>" }
headers = {
    "X-Exo-API-Key": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'X-Exo-API-Key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({query: '<string>'})
};

fetch('https://api.get-exo.com/v1/search', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

{
  "results": [
    {
      "chunk": "<string>",
      "score": 123,
      "nodeId": "<string>",
      "title": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "usage": {
    "embedTokens": 123,
    "readUnits": 123
  }
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

No cognition, brain inference, or contradiction detection — the cheap, capped primitive. Data scoping follows scope: user filters to the effective subject (owner by default, or a provisioned subject selected via X-Exo-Subject / the subject body field), org searches the whole organization. Org routing and authz stay on the principal. A missing embedder or pool degrades to 503 service_degraded, never 500.

Authorization

This route requires the read scope. A missing or invalid credential returns 401 authentication_error. A valid credential without the scope returns 403 permission_denied, and the problem body names the exact scope required.

Headers

These are request conventions the contract does not declare as parameters, so they do not appear in the schema tables below.

Header	Applies	What it does
`X-Exo-API-Key`	Required	Your Exo API key, `exo_<env>_<token>`. `Authorization: Bearer exo_...` is accepted as an alternate.
`X-Exo-Subject`	Optional	Acts for a provisioned subject instead of the key owner. An unprovisioned id returns 403 `subject_not_provisioned`.
`Idempotency-Key`	Not honoured	This route does not replay: reads have no side effect to replay.
`X-Request-Id`	Response	Returned on every response, including `204`s. Quote it in a support request.

Success responses

Status	Meaning
`200`	Successful Response

Errors

Status	Code	When
`400`	`invalid_request`	Malformed request, for example an invalid cursor.
`401`	`authentication_error`	Missing or invalid credentials.
`403`	`permission_denied`	Missing scope, or an unprovisioned subject selector.
`404`	`not_found`	The resource does not exist, or is not visible to this caller.
`409`	`conflict`	A conflict with the current state of the resource.
`422`	`validation_error`	The request was understood but failed field validation.
`429`	`rate_limit_exceeded`	Rate limit exceeded. Retry after the Retry-After interval.
`503`	`service_degraded`	A dependency is temporarily unavailable. Safe to retry.

Every error is an RFC 9457 application/problem+json body carrying a stable code, a requestId, and a suggestedAction where Exo has one. See Errors.

Notes

This is the cheap primitive, not a smaller retrieve. There is no cognition block, no brain inference and no contradiction detection. If you want reasoning, call POST /v1/retrieve.
scope is a body field here, not a header. user filters to the effective subject, org searches the whole organization.
Search has its own rate-limit family. It embeds the query, so it does not draw on the generous reads bucket. See Rate limits.

Authorizations

X-Exo-API-Key

string

header

required

An Exo API key (exo_...) sent as the X-Exo-API-Key header.

Body

application/json

POST /v1/search request body.

topK is coerced into [1, 50] (default 10), never rejected. scope selects the data scope: user (default) filters to the effective subject, org searches org-wide. The reserved subject selector is handled by the shared seam and is intentionally absent here.

query

string

required

The search text.

Required string length: 1 - 10000

scope

enum<string>

default:user

Data scope: 'user' (default) filters to the effective subject; 'org' searches across the whole organization.

Available options:

user,

org

topK

integer

default:10

Maximum number of results; coerced into [1, 50] (default 10).

Response

Successful Response

POST /v1/search response: the ranked results plus a usage object.

results

SearchResult · object[]

required

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usage

SearchUsage · object

required

Additive per-call usage counters for search (spec D13).

readUnits: number of results returned (the billable read unit).
embedTokens: DOCUMENTED ESTIMATE of Voyage embed tokens for the query (~3.5 chars/token, the same tokenizer-free proxy retrieve reports), not the metered figure.

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Ingestion

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​Authorization

​Headers

​Success responses

​Errors

​Notes

Authorizations

Body

Response

Authorization

Headers

Success responses

Errors

Notes