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 instructions/devdotbo/perplexity-web-mcp/claude-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devdotbo/perplexity-web-mcpWhat 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 | $0.00736 | $0.00736 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00368 | $0.00368 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00147 | $0.00147 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00074 | $0.00074 |
Grade A, and why
perplexity-web-mcp CLAUDE.md 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Perplexity Web MCP
CLI, MCP server, and API-compatible interface for Perplexity AI's web interface.
Quick Start
# Install
uv venv && uv pip install -e .
# Authenticate
pwm login
# Query from terminal
pwm ask "What is quantum computing?"
# Run MCP server
pwm-mcp
Project Structure
src/perplexity_web_mcp/
├── __init__.py # Package exports
├── shared.py # Shared query logic (MODEL_MAP, ask(), used by CLI + MCP)
├── council.py # Model Council (parallel multi-model queries + synthesis)
├── core.py # Perplexity client, Conversation class
├── models.py # Model definitions (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, etc.)
├── config.py # ClientConfig, ConversationConfig
├── enums.py # CitationMode, SearchFocus, SourceFocus
├── http.py # HTTP client with retry/rate limiting
├── rate_limits.py # Rate limit checking via /rest/rate-limit/all
├── token_store.py # Token persistence (~/.config/perplexity-web-mcp/token)
├── data/ # Bundled Agent Skill (SKILL.md + references/)
├── cli/
│ ├── main.py # Unified CLI entry point (pwm)
│ ├── auth.py # Authentication flow
│ ├── setup.py # MCP server setup for AI tools
│ ├── skill.py # Agent Skill management
│ ├── doctor.py # Diagnostic checks
│ └── ai_doc.py # --ai flag documentation
├── mcp/
│ └── server.py # MCP server (imports from shared.py)
└── api/
└── server.py # Anthropic/OpenAI API compatibility
CLI Commands
pwm ask "query" [-m MODEL] [-t] [-s SOURCE] # Query Perplexity
pwm council "query" [-m MODELS] [-t] [-s SOURCE] # Model Council (multi-model)
pwm research "query" [-s SOURCE] # Deep research
pwm login [--check] [--email E --code C] # Authentication
pwm usage [--refresh] # Rate limits
pwm setup [list|add|remove] CLIENT # MCP config
pwm skill [list|install|uninstall] TOOL # Skill management
pwm doctor [-v] # Diagnostics
pwm --ai # AI reference doc
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 · 87 lines · 736 tokens per session scan A 4297c37b191b
perplexity-web-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository devdotbo/perplexity-web-mcp (15 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 736 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 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.
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