perplexity

perplexity is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from G1Joshi/Agent-Skills. It costs 17 tokens per session (283 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search and research tool that finds current information online and returns answers with links to the original sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch current events, prices, technical information, or source-backed answers for search-enabled apps and chatbots.
Why use it?
It helps when a language model may not know recent facts or needs evidence. It can search several times for harder questions and limit results to selected websites.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/g1joshi/agent-skills/perplexity
Any agent
npx skills add G1Joshi/Agent-Skills --skill perplexity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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

README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 283 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00017 $0.00283
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00142
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00028

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2a2a12f562b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

perplexity 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.

skills/ai-ml/perplexity/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Perplexity

Perplexity is an AI search engine. For developers, the Sonar API provides grounded, cited answers for building search-enabled apps.

When to Use

  • Real-time Info: "What is the stock price of Apple?" (LLMs can't answer this without tools).
  • Research Apps: Building an app that needs to cite sources.
  • Citations: You need reliability and links to original data.

Core Concepts

Sonar API

API access to Perplexity's online models (llama-3-sonar-large-32k-online).

Citations

API returns a list of citations used to generate the answer.

Pro Search

Multi-step reasoning search (Googles multiple times to answer complex queries).

Best Practices (2025)

Do:

  • Use for Grounding: If your chatbot needs current events, route those queries to Perplexity.
  • Use Search Options: Filter by domain (e.g., search only reddit.com or stackoverflow.com).

Don't:

  • Don't use for creative writing: It is optimized for facts, not fiction.

References

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. 5d ago First seen · 44 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 2a2a12f562b6

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perplexity is a skill published in the GitHub repository G1Joshi/Agent-Skills (12 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 283 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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