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.
npx agentmods add commands/danielmiessler/paiplugin/web-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielmiessler/PAIPluginWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00309 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00154 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00062 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00031 |
Grade A, and why
web-research scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
source ${PAI_DIR}/.env && curl -s -X POST https://api.perplexity.ai/chat/completions \ What it actually says
Web Research Command - Perplexity AI
Quick Usage
# Basic research query (API key in ${PAI_DIR}/.env as PERPLEXITY_API_KEY)
source ${PAI_DIR}/.env && curl -s -X POST https://api.perplexity.ai/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PERPLEXITY_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d "{\"model\":\"sonar\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"YOUR_QUERY_HERE\"}]}" \
| python3 -c "import sys, json; data = json.load(sys.stdin); print(data['choices'][0]['message']['content'])"
With Citations
source ${PAI_DIR}/.env && curl -s -X POST https://api.perplexity.ai/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PERPLEXITY_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d "{\"model\":\"sonar\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"YOUR_QUERY_HERE\"}],\"return_citations\":true}" \
| python3 -m json.tool
Models
- sonar-pro - Deeper analysis with more sources
When to Use
- Current events and recent information
- Technical documentation research
- Multi-source information synthesis
- Fact-checking and verification
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 30 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2709821371b5
web-research is a command published in the GitHub repository danielmiessler/PAIPlugin (56 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 309 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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checklist
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clarify
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specify
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analyze
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converge
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implement
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