research-perplexity

A command for conducting deep research through Perplexity’s research mode, which is a service that investigates questions across web sources. It uses a logged-in browser session and requires a second review of the resulting plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for detailed technical or other research questions when you want Perplexity to investigate the topic and critique the resulting plan.
Why use it?
It provides a longer research workflow without requiring an API key, while the review step helps identify weaknesses in the proposed conclusions or implementation plan.

Command

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/intellegix/intellegix-code-agent-toolkit/research-perplexity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intellegix/intellegix-code-agent-toolkit
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 3,658 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 $0.03658
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01829
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00732
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00366

Measured yesterday against content hash 9878698e2ec5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-perplexity 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 yesterday.

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.

commands/research-perplexity.md · 247 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/research-perplexity — Deep Research via Perplexity

Run a deep research query using Perplexity's /research mode via Playwright browser automation. This is an alternative to /export-to-council that uses Perplexity's dedicated research mode instead of multi-model council.

No API keys required — uses Perplexity login session only. Good fallback when council mode defaults to single-model.

CRITICAL — TWO-PASS VERIFICATION IS MANDATORY EVERY INVOCATION. After receiving Perplexity results and synthesizing a plan (Step 6), you MUST send that plan back to Perplexity for critique (Step 7) BEFORE calling ExitPlanMode. NEVER call ExitPlanMode without completing Step 7. Skipping verification is a protocol violation. This applies regardless of plan size, complexity, or apparent correctness. NO EXCEPTIONS.

CRITICAL: Do NOT ask the user questions before completing Step 1 and Step 2. Compile context silently, build the query, and execute. Only ask questions if $ARGUMENTS is empty AND you cannot determine a useful research focus from the compiled context.

MANDATORY CONTEXT PREAMBLE — EVERY QUERY, NO EXCEPTIONS: Every single query sent to Perplexity (Step 3 AND Step 7.3) MUST begin with the following preamble block. This is a hard rule — never omit it, never paraphrase it, never move it to a footnote. It goes at the TOP of every query, before any other content:

[ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT — READ FIRST]
This project is being developed using Claude Code, Anthropic's official CLI tool for Claude (claude.ai/claude-code). The developer uses a Claude Max subscription and works entirely in the terminal via the `claude` CLI command. Claude Code is an agentic coding assistant that reads/writes files, runs terminal commands, searches codebases, and executes multi-step development tasks autonomously. All code generation, refactoring, debugging, and project management happens through Claude Code's conversation interface — there is no IDE or GUI involved. Responses should account for this workflow: recommend CLI-compatible tools, terminal-based solutions, and approaches that work well with an AI coding agent operating in a command-line environment.
[END ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT]

Read the full file on GitHub · 247 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 247 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9878698e2ec5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-perplexity is a command published in the GitHub repository intellegix/intellegix-code-agent-toolkit (57 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,658 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 2026-08-30.