perplexity-research

perplexity-research is a skill for Claude Code from AIsa-team/agent-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (777 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research tool that uses Perplexity Sonar models through the AIsa API to produce answers with citations. It offers models for quick lookups, detailed exploration, complex reasoning, and exhaustive research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research questions, discover sources, extract information, and create citation-backed research reports.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of searching for sources and combining findings into a cited answer. It requires an `AISA_API_KEY` to access the service.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; built for openclaw.

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

Good fit Use it to research questions, discover sources, extract information, and create citation-backed research reports.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 777 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00055 $0.00777
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00388
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00078

Measured 8d ago against content hash cf956f51dc80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

perplexity-research 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/search_client.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.

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.

search-research/perplexity-research/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AIsa Perplexity Deep Research

Conduct deep research using Perplexity Sonar models via the AIsa API. Returns synthesized, citation-backed answers instead of raw search results. Choose from four models depending on the depth and complexity needed.

Setup

This skill requires the AISA_API_KEY environment variable. When installed as a Claude plugin, the key is configured via the plugin's userConfig.

Usage

Run the search client with the sonar subcommand:

python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/perplexity-research/scripts/search_client.py sonar --query "<research question>" --model <model_name>

Arguments

Argument Required Default Description
--query / -q Yes Research question or query
--model / -m No sonar Model to use (see below)

Available Models

Model Speed Depth Best For
sonar Fast Standard Quick factual lookups
sonar-pro Medium Detailed In-depth topic exploration
sonar-reasoning-pro Slower Deep Complex reasoning and analysis
sonar-deep-research Slowest Exhaustive Comprehensive research reports

Examples

# Quick factual lookup
python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/perplexity-research/scripts/search_client.py sonar --query "What is the current state of quantum computing?"

# Detailed research
python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/perplexity-research/scripts/search_client.py sonar --query "Compare transformer and state-space model architectures" --model sonar-pro

# Complex reasoning
python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/perplexity-research/scripts/search_client.py sonar --query "Will AGI be achieved by 2030? Analyze arguments for and against." --model sonar-reasoning-pro

# Exhaustive deep research
python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/perplexity-research/scripts/search_client.py sonar --query "Comprehensive analysis of AI regulation frameworks worldwide" --model sonar-deep-research

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 75 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A cf956f51dc80

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perplexity-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository AIsa-team/agent-skills (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 777 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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