perplexity-search

perplexity-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills. It costs 98 tokens per session (3,203 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A web-search workflow that uses Perplexity models to find current, source-backed information. It is designed for questions that need recent facts, scientific literature, or information beyond the model’s stored knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research recent developments, find scientific papers, verify facts with citations, and investigate biomedical, technical, or clinical topics.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of answering from outdated information and provides sources that can be checked. It is useful when a normal answer is not enough because the facts may have changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to research recent developments, find scientific papers, verify facts with citations, and investigate biomedical, technical, or clinical topics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/foryourhealth111-pixel/vibe-skills/perplexity-search
About the project

Vibe-Skills is a collection and routing system that helps AI agents discover, select, and coordinate specialized skills for completing tasks. It is intended for agents that need to organize workflows across many installed capabilities. The catalogue entries are skills and an agent belonging to this system.

foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills · 3,252 stars · on GitHub

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 foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill perplexity-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,203 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 416
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00098 $0.03203
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01602
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00641
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00320

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6f42d1777cfd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/perplexity_search.py, scripts/setup_env.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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

bundled/skills/perplexity-search/SKILL.md · 446 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 446 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Perform AI-powered web searches using Perplexity models through LiteLLM and OpenRouter. Perplexity provides real-time, web-grounded answers with source citations, making it ideal for finding current information, recent scientific literature, and facts beyond the model's training data cutoff.

This skill provides access to all Perplexity models through OpenRouter, requiring only a single API key (no separate Perplexity account needed).

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Searching for current information or recent developments (2024 and beyond)
  • Finding latest scientific publications and research
  • Getting real-time answers grounded in web sources
  • Verifying facts with source citations
  • Conducting literature searches across multiple domains
  • Accessing information beyond the model's knowledge cutoff
  • Performing domain-specific research (biomedical, technical, clinical)
  • Comparing current approaches or technologies

Do not use for:

  • Simple calculations or logic problems (use directly)
  • Tasks requiring code execution (use standard tools)
  • Questions well within the model's training data (unless verification needed)

Quick Start

Setup (One-time)

  1. Get OpenRouter API key:

  2. Configure environment:

    # Set API key
    export OPENROUTER_API_KEY='sk-or-v1-your-key-here'
    
    # Or use setup script
    python scripts/setup_env.py --api-key sk-or-v1-your-key-here
    
  3. Install dependencies:

    uv pip install litellm
    
  4. Verify setup:

    python scripts/perplexity_search.py --check-setup
    

See references/openrouter_setup.md for detailed setup instructions, troubleshooting, and security best practices.

Basic Usage

Simple search:

python scripts/perplexity_search.py "What are the latest developments in CRISPR gene editing?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 446 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 446 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 6f42d1777cfd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

perplexity-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills (3,252 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 3,203 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 2026-09-03.

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