perplexity-browser

perplexity-browser is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AiAi-Mastermind/aiai-mastermind-tools-and-skills. It costs 140 tokens per session (1,764 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A browser-based research tool that uses a signed-in Perplexity subscription to search the web or produce a deeper research report. Perplexity is a web research service that returns answers with source links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for quick cited searches or longer research reports, including reports focused on a project, then inspect the answer and its publisher sources.
Why use it?
It lets an agent research without using the paid API and keeps the research session separate in an incognito browser window.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; reads ~/.codex paths; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it for quick cited searches or longer research reports, including reports focused on a project, then inspect the answer and its publisher sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aiai-mastermind/aiai-mastermind-tools-and-skills/perplexity-browser
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AiAi-Mastermind/aiai-mastermind-tools-and-skills --skill perplexity-browser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AiAi-Mastermind/aiai-mastermind-tools-and-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,764 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00140 $0.01764
Opus 5.5 $0.00056 $0.00706
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00176

Measured 11d ago against content hash fbdda17b7dca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

perplexity-browser scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (bin/acdriver.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

PA="$(ls -d ~/.claude/skills/perplexity-browser ~/.codex/skills/perplexity-browser ~/.agents/skills/perplexity-browser 2>/dev/null | head -1)/bin/perplexity-ask"
skills/perplexity-browser/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Perplexity (browser, your subscription)

Requires the aiai-agent-chrome kit, installed and running, with you signed in to perplexity.ai inside the Agent Chrome window (Chrome Beta). Deep research needs a Perplexity plan that includes it.

Use the driver

PA="$(ls -d ~/.claude/skills/perplexity-browser ~/.codex/skills/perplexity-browser ~/.agents/skills/perplexity-browser 2>/dev/null | head -1)/bin/perplexity-ask"
"$PA" "<question>" --json                      # Search: about 10-25 s, about 10 sources
"$PA" "<question>" --mode research --json      # Deep research: about 1-5 min, many sources
"$PA" "<question>" --mode research --where project --json   # optional: keep the thread in your own research project (see config.json)

It prints one JSON object: status, answer_markdown, sources (title, url, snippet), source_count, thread_url, isolation, incognito_confirmed_before_submit / incognito_on_thread, elapsed_s and file. The file is a private markdown copy under ~/Library/Application Support/BrowserResearch/runs/<date>/ (set BROWSER_RESEARCH_DIR to change it). Read answer_markdown and sources; cite the underlying publishers, not "Perplexity".

status do this
done use it
signin_needed tell the owner to sign in to Perplexity in Agent Chrome; "$AC" open https://www.perplexity.ai/ opens a tab for them (AC below)
isolation_unavailable Incognito could not be confirmed, so nothing was sent. Retry once; if it fails again, report it. Never run the question outside Incognito instead
rate_limited the plan's quota is used up; say so, don't retry today
ui_changed Perplexity moved something; drive it yourself (below) and report the drift
timeout the run may still finish; thread_url is in the result (Incognito threads live about 24 h)
busy another Perplexity run held the submit lock for 5 min; try again later
not_installed / not_running / error the kit is missing or Agent Chrome is down: run "$AC" doctor and report the message

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 70 lines · 140 tokens per session scan B fbdda17b7dca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

perplexity-browser is a skill published in the GitHub repository AiAi-Mastermind/aiai-mastermind-tools-and-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 1,764 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-09.

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