perplexity-web-mcp

perplexity-web-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from devdotbo/perplexity-web-mcp. It costs 122 tokens per session (3,628 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of perplexity-web-mcp, MIT.

A connection to Perplexity AI for searching the internet and asking AI models questions through commands or an MCP server. Perplexity combines web results with generated answers and research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search current online information, ask questions about web content, get detailed answers, or run an explicitly requested deep-research task.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a documented workflow for authenticated web searches and detailed answers, including a separate mode for research when the user requests it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to search current online information, ask questions about web content, get detailed answers, or run an explicitly requested deep-research task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devdotbo/perplexity-web-mcp/data
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 devdotbo/perplexity-web-mcp --skill data
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devdotbo/perplexity-web-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,628 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00122 $0.03628
Opus 5.5 $0.00049 $0.01451
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00726
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00363

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2dd8e89a2f4c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

perplexity-web-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 1mo 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

100% identical to perplexity-web-mcp — 0 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.

src/perplexity_web_mcp/data/SKILL.md · 350 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 350 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Perplexity Web MCP

Search the web and query premium AI models through Perplexity AI.

Quick Reference

Run pwm --ai for comprehensive AI-optimized documentation covering all commands, models, MCP tools, auth flows, and error recovery.

pwm --ai                # Full AI reference (RECOMMENDED first step)
pwm --help              # CLI help
pwm login --check       # Check auth status

Critical Rules

  1. Authenticate first: Run pwm login before any queries
  2. Tokens last ~30 days: Re-run pwm login on 403 errors
  3. Default to claude_opus with --thinking --intent detailed -- always use the best model
  4. Always output to file -- pipe to /tmp/pwm-*.txt, never dump into conversation context
  5. Never use Deep Research autonomously -- only when the user explicitly asks

Default Invocation

Every pwm ask call uses these flags -- no exceptions:

pwm ask "question" -m claude_opus --thinking --intent detailed > /tmp/pwm-TASKID.txt
  • -m claude_opus -- always explicit model, never bare pwm ask or auto/sonar
  • --thinking -- always enabled
  • --intent detailed -- always detailed (the standard research tier)
  • Output piped to /tmp/pwm-*.txt -- never dump raw content into conversation context
  • No -s flag by default -- no additional source focus unless the query specifically needs it
  • No --json by default -- raw markdown is cleaner for file output. Add --json only when programmatic parsing is needed.

Rate Limiting and Parallelism

0.5 requests per second = 1 request every 2 seconds. When launching parallel requests, stagger by sleep 2 between each launch. Parallel execution is the default for independent queries.

# Parallel pattern with 2s stagger
pwm ask "Q1" -m claude_opus --thinking --intent detailed > /tmp/pwm-q1.txt &
sleep 2
pwm ask "Q2" -m claude_opus --thinking --intent detailed > /tmp/pwm-q2.txt &
sleep 2
pwm ask "Q3" -m claude_opus --thinking --intent detailed > /tmp/pwm-q3.txt &
wait

Read the full file on GitHub · 350 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. 1mo ago First seen · 350 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 2dd8e89a2f4c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

perplexity-web-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository devdotbo/perplexity-web-mcp (20 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 3,628 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to perplexity-web-mcp, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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