perplexity-search

perplexity-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AIsa-team/agent-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,340 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command-line connection to Perplexity Sonar models, which search the web and produce answers with citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for citation-backed web searches, comparisons, multi-step reasoning, and deep research through Perplexity.
Why use it?
It provides different search modes for quick answers, analysis, or longer research when ordinary local context is not enough.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it for citation-backed web searches, comparisons, multi-step reasoning, and deep research through Perplexity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aisa-team/agent-skills/perplexity-search
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 AIsa-team/agent-skills --skill perplexity-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AIsa-team/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for perplexity-search

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for perplexity-search

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,340 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 12
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 88
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 102
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 116
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 130
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00062 $0.01340
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00670
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00134

Measured 9d ago against content hash bbabfedea1cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

perplexity-search scanned grade A 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 9d ago.

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

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- curl
search-research/perplexity-search/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use this skill when the user specifically wants Perplexity-powered search answers instead of structured scholar/web retrieval.

This skill covers four AIsa endpoints:

  • /perplexity/sonar
  • /perplexity/sonar-pro
  • /perplexity/sonar-reasoning-pro
  • /perplexity/sonar-deep-research

Compatibility

Works with any agentskills.io-compatible harness, including:

  • Claude Code and Claude (Anthropic)
  • OpenAI Codex
  • Cursor
  • Gemini CLI (Google)
  • OpenCode, Goose, OpenClaw, Hermes
  • and any other harness that implements the Agent Skills specification

Requires Python 3, a POSIX shell, and AISA_API_KEY (get one at aisa.one).

Requirements

  • Set AISA_API_KEY
  • Use the bundled client at {baseDir}/scripts/perplexity_search_client.py

Model Selection

  • Use sonar for fast, lightweight answers with citations
  • Use sonar-pro for stronger synthesis and comparison tasks
  • Use sonar-reasoning-pro for analytical or multi-step reasoning questions
  • Use sonar-deep-research for exhaustive reports; expect slower responses and occasional timeouts

Python Client

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/perplexity_search_client.py sonar --query "What changed in AI this week?"
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/perplexity_search_client.py sonar-pro --query "Compare coding agents with citations"
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/perplexity_search_client.py sonar-reasoning-pro --query "Analyze whether vertical AI agents can defend against general copilots"
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/perplexity_search_client.py sonar-deep-research --query "Create a deep research report on AI coding agents in 2026"

Add a system message when you want a more specific output format:

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/perplexity_search_client.py sonar-pro \
  --query "Map the top coding agent products" \
  --system "Respond in markdown with an executive summary first."

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 153 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A bbabfedea1cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

perplexity-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository AIsa-team/agent-skills (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,340 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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