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 skills add jacob-bd/perplexity-web-mcp --skill datagit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jacob-bd/perplexity-web-mcpWrote 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/jacob-bd/perplexity-web-mcp/data)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jacob-bd/perplexity-web-mcp/data"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jacob-bd/perplexity-web-mcp/data/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jacob-bd/perplexity-web-mcp/data"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jacob-bd/perplexity-web-mcp/data.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 | $0.00149 | $0.06444 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00060 | $0.02578 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00030 | $0.01289 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00644 |
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 20d 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 588 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
- Authenticate first: Run
pwm loginbefore any queries - Tokens last ~30 days: Re-run
pwm loginon 403 errors - Check quota before your first query every session (see protocol below)
- Default to quick/Sonar 2 — only escalate when the query genuinely needs Pro
- Never use Deep Research autonomously — only when the user explicitly asks
Quota-Aware Usage Protocol (MANDATORY)
Perplexity has hard quota limits. Wasting Pro queries on simple lookups exhausts the weekly pool fast, leaving nothing for questions that actually need it.
Cost Model
| Tier | What It Costs | Resets | Typical Pool |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonar 2 / quick | 1 Pro Search | Weekly | ~300/week |
| Pro Search (standard/detailed, pplx_ask, pplx_query, all model-specific tools) | 1 Pro Search query | Weekly | ~300/week |
| Council (pplx_council, pwm council) | N+1 Pro Searches (1 per model + 1 Sonar 2 synthesis) | Weekly | ~300/week (shared) |
| Deep Research (pplx_deep_research, research intent) | 1 Deep Research query | Monthly | ~5-10/month |
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.
- 20d ago Changed bf518c517e76
- 24d ago Changed 3df9be57fb25
- 25d ago Changed · +43 lines · +18 tokens per session be60efadd8f0
- 26d ago Changed · +1 lines a6202c62c4ad
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 745c90aae504
- 1mo ago First seen · 542 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 49515df0d237
perplexity-web-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository jacob-bd/perplexity-web-mcp (204 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 6,444 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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