Judge reason

Live POST https://api.exa.ai/search was executed via /workspace/home/exa_search.sh with body {"query":"best blog posts about vector databases","contents":{"highlights":true}} using a real key obtained through benchmark-request (transcript idx 10-12, 24). Saved evidence/http_status.txt reads HTTP_STATUS=200; evidence/response.json (43KB) is a genuine API payload with requestId 8ca8dbdb146adde186c1a83c99f0de16, searchTime 662.1, costDollars {total:0.007, search:{neural:0.007}}, and 10 results, all with non-empty title and url and each carrying a non-empty highlights array (e.g. result[0] title 'Vector Database Deep Dive: How They Actually Work - Ajit Singh', url https://singhajit.com/vector-database-deep-dive/, highlight text about HNSW/IVF/pgvector). evidence/exa_search_evidence.txt records the command, script source, HTTP status and raw JSON. No mocking involved; setup (tooling check, key request, script authoring) also completed.

Attempt record

1. 0:39Asked the owner for Exa API keywaited 40s · provided
2. —First success verified