perplexity_search

perplexity_search is an agent for coding agents from frederikb96/prism. It costs 0 tokens per session (39 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for quick factual searches and broad information gathering. It is intended for current facts, common-knowledge checks, and wide searches rather than detailed research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking facts, gathering information across different topics, and verifying common knowledge.
Why use it?
It helps answer straightforward information questions quickly without using a tool meant for deep analysis.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/frederikb96/prism/perplexity_search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frederikb96/prism

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for perplexity_search

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/frederikb96/prism/perplexity_search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/frederikb96/prism/perplexity_search.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 39 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00039
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00019
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00008
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00004

Measured 3d ago against content hash a82182e02691, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

perplexity_search scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

src/prism/prompts/search_manager/agents/perplexity_search.md · 2 lines

What it actually says

Quick factual lookups and common knowledge. Good for wide-range info gathering efficiently. NOT suited for deep analysis. Best for: current factual information, common knowledge verification, efficient wide-range info gathering.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 2 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a82182e02691

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perplexity_search is an agent published in the GitHub repository frederikb96/prism (0 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 39 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.