solve-perplexity

A command that repeatedly investigates difficult bugs and edge cases through progressively refined Perplexity searches, while tracking contradictions and whether the findings are converging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for complex bugs, unusual edge cases, or problems that are difficult to solve in one investigation. It produces fixes rather than an implementation plan.
Why use it?
A single search may miss details or produce conflicting answers; repeated investigation helps work toward a concrete fix.

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/solve-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 3,234 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 $0.03234
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01617
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00647
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00323

Measured 2d ago against content hash 619ec09d05b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

solve-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 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.

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/solve-perplexity.md · 309 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 309 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/solve-perplexity — Iterative Problem Solver via Perplexity

Iteratively solve complex bugs, edge cases, and nearly-unsolvable issues using progressive Perplexity queries with contradiction tracking and convergence detection. Tier 2.5 in the escalation ladder — between single-pass /research-perplexity (Tier 2) and user handoff (Tier 3).

Cost: $0 — uses Perplexity login session only (Playwright browser automation).

CRITICAL: This is a SOLVER, not a PLANNER. It outputs concrete fixes directly. Do NOT enter plan mode. Do NOT ask the user questions before completing Step 0 and Step 1. Compile context silently, decompose the problem, and begin iterating.

MANDATORY CONTEXT PREAMBLE — EVERY QUERY, NO EXCEPTIONS: Every single query sent to Perplexity 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]

When to Use

  • Tier 2 (/research-perplexity) returned low-confidence or contradictory results
  • Problem requires multiple angles of investigation (e.g., interplay between library version, OS, and config)
  • Edge case that doesn't match any known pattern in docs or Stack Overflow
  • Bug where root cause is ambiguous — multiple plausible hypotheses need systematic elimination
  • Integration issues spanning multiple systems (API + DB + auth + deployment)

Read the full file on GitHub · 309 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. 2d ago First seen · 309 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 619ec09d05b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

solve-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 3,234 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.