Judge reason

Saved evidence shows a real live Exa Search call. Setup: exa-py 2.22.2 installed in a venv (transcript idx 10-13, after PEP 668 blocked system pip) and the API key obtained via benchmark-request (idx 15-17). exa_search.py used the real exa_py SDK (exa.search(..., type='auto', contents={'highlights': True})); the run exited 0 with empty evidence/sdk_stderr.txt (0 bytes) and evidence/sdk_response.json contains 10 results with titles, https URLs (e.g. https://exa.ai/blog/building-web-scale-vector-db, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/..., https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vector-database/), non-empty highlight strings (first highlight 1801 chars), searchTime 1006.6 and costDollars {total: 0.007, search.neural: 0.007}. An independent raw HTTP POST to https://api.exa.ai/search (exa_search_raw.py) recorded HTTP_STATUS 200 with requestId 71c85845b6b28bfcd5617224d441136f, searchTime 8.5, costDollars 0.007 and the same 10 live results. Content is clearly live (pages dated 2025-2026, varied third-party domains), not mocked. All success criteria met.

Attempt record

1. 1:12Asked the owner for Exa API key (EXA_API_KEY)waited 87s · provided
2. —First success verified