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.
npx agentmods add skills/escapewu/perplexity-ai/perplexity-searchnpx skills add escapeWu/perplexity-ai --skill perplexity-searchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/escapeWu/perplexity-aiWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/escapewu/perplexity-ai/perplexity-search)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/escapewu/perplexity-ai/perplexity-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/escapewu/perplexity-ai/perplexity-search.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00098 | $0.01366 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00049 | $0.00683 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00273 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00137 |
Grade A, and why
perplexity-search 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 5d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Perplexity Search
Use this project skill as the default path for current public-web research. It wraps the self-hosted escapeWu/perplexity-ai OpenAI-compatible REST endpoint with a small deterministic CLI, so Agents do not need to construct requests or select model IDs by hand.
Default behavior
- Use
askfor focused current-information questions, news, fact checks, comparisons, and ordinary cited analysis. - Use
researchfor broad investigations that need many sources, several subtopics, or a report-like synthesis. - Reuse the returned
session_idfor targeted follow-ups on the same topic. - Start a new session when the topic changes.
- Preserve source URLs in the final answer and clearly separate sourced claims from Agent synthesis.
- If this skill cannot run because configuration, credentials, the endpoint, or an upstream model is unavailable, report the concrete non-secret reason before using another search method.
Treat the backend as the self-hosted project service, not the official Perplexity API.
Quick start
The CLI path is relative to this file. In a repository checkout, initialize SKILL_DIR once:
SKILL_DIR="${SKILL_DIR:-$PWD/.agents/skills/perplexity-search}"
Prefer environment variables for deployment-specific values:
PPLX_BASE_URL: service root, with or without/v1; defaults tohttp://127.0.0.1:8000.MCP_TOKENorPPLX_API_KEY: bearer token;MCP_TOKENtakes precedence.
The checked-in config.json intentionally contains only localhost and a token placeholder. Keep real credentials in the environment and never print, quote, log, or commit them.
Run a focused Ask search:
python3 "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/cli.py" ask \
"What changed in Python packaging this month? Cite primary sources."
Run Deep Research:
python3 "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/cli.py" research \
"Research the 2026 enterprise AI agent market. Compare adoption, pricing, security constraints, and primary-source evidence; return a structured report."
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.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 141 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 1f6e85f5a775
perplexity-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository escapeWu/perplexity-ai (165 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,366 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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