perplexity-mcp

perplexity-mcp is an MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor from mkusaka/mcp-server-perplexity. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, a copy of civo-mcp, MIT.

An MCP server that provides web search, reasoning, and research functions through Perplexity AI models. It runs locally as an npm package and can be connected to an MCP-compatible assistant.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching for information, investigating questions, comparing sources, and carrying out research during coding tasks.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent access to external research and search capabilities while working on a project.

MCP server for Claude CodeCodexCursor

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 mcp/mkusaka/mcp-server-perplexity/perplexity-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mkusaka/mcp-server-perplexity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

perplexity-mcp 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to civo-mcp — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

listed in the official MCP registry · 9 lines

What it actually says

{ "perplexity-mcp": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "perplexity-mcp" ] } }

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. 4d ago First seen · 9 lines scan A 37ef96c491c1

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perplexity-mcp is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository mkusaka/mcp-server-perplexity (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to civo-mcp, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.