PP: Reasoning

A command for sending a question to Perplexity’s reasoning mode, which uses a reasoning model to work through complex problems step by step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for multi-step questions that need analysis and sourced results, with responses requested in Chinese.
Why use it?
It gives a defined way to request deeper logical analysis when a quick answer is not enough.

Command for Claude Code

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 commands/escapewu/perplexity-ai/reasoning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/escapeWu/perplexity-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 175 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 $0.00015 $0.00175
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00088
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00017

Measured 3d ago against content hash d59dc52da2e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

PP: Reasoning 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.

.claude/commands/pp/reasoning.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Overview Use Perplexity reasoning mode for multi-step thinking and problem analysis.

Features

  • Uses reasoning models (default: gemini-3.1-pro)
  • Multi-step thinking process
  • Good balance between speed and depth
  • Suitable for complex questions requiring logical analysis

Steps

  1. Use mcp__perplexity-mcp__research tool with the user's query.
  2. Set mode: "reasoning" explicitly.
  3. Set language: "zh-CN" for Chinese responses.
  4. Present the results with analysis and sources.

Query: $ARGUMENTS

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 · 25 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d59dc52da2e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PP: Reasoning is a command published in the GitHub repository escapeWu/perplexity-ai (164 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 175 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.