perplexity-search

perplexity-search is a skill for Claude Code from parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3. It costs 18 tokens per session (809 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for searching the web and researching questions through Perplexity, an AI search service. It supports direct results as well as answers that combine information from multiple sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for web searches, cited research, technical comparisons, and questions that need deeper reasoning or recent information.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent a way to investigate current or complex topics instead of relying only on its existing knowledge.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is uv run python scripts/mcp/perplexity_search.py \.

not rated 3.9krepo +2 7mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 18 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it for web searches, cited research, technical comparisons, and questions that need deeper reasoning or recent information.

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About the project

Continuous-Claude-v3 is a Claude Code development environment that preserves working context between sessions, coordinates specialized agents, and stores project knowledge through ledgers, handoffs, and analysis tools. It is for people using Claude Code on ongoing or complex software work. Its catalogue entries are the skills, agents, hooks, plugin, and setting that provide its workflows and orchestration.

parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 · 3,938 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/parcadei/continuous-claude-v3/perplexity-search

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 809 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 15 Feb 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00018 $0.00809
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00404
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00081

Measured 9d ago against content hash 609fe418fded, 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.

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.

.claude/skills/perplexity-search/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web search with AI-powered answers, deep research, and chain-of-thought reasoning.

When to Use

  • Direct web search for ranked results (no AI synthesis)
  • AI-synthesized research with citations
  • Chain-of-thought reasoning for complex decisions
  • Deep comprehensive research on topics

Models (2025)

Model Purpose
sonar Lightweight search with grounding
sonar-pro Advanced search for complex queries
sonar-reasoning-pro Chain of thought reasoning
sonar-deep-research Expert-level exhaustive research

Usage

Quick question (AI answer)

uv run python scripts/mcp/perplexity_search.py \
    --ask "What is the latest version of Python?"

Direct web search (ranked results, no AI)

uv run python scripts/mcp/perplexity_search.py \
    --search "SQLite graph database patterns" \
    --max-results 5 \
    --recency week

AI-synthesized research

uv run python scripts/mcp/perplexity_search.py \
    --research "compare FastAPI vs Django for microservices"

Chain-of-thought reasoning

uv run python scripts/mcp/perplexity_search.py \
    --reason "should I use Neo4j or SQLite for small graph under 10k nodes?"

Deep comprehensive research

uv run python scripts/mcp/perplexity_search.py \
    --deep "state of AI agent observability 2025"

Parameters

Parameter Description
--ask Quick question with AI answer (sonar)
--search Direct web search - ranked results without AI synthesis
--research AI-synthesized research (sonar-pro)
--reason Chain-of-thought reasoning (sonar-reasoning-pro)
--deep Deep comprehensive research (sonar-deep-research)

Search-specific options

Parameter Description
--max-results N Number of results (1-20, default: 10)
--recency Filter: day, week, month, year
--domains Limit to specific domains

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

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 · 112 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 609fe418fded

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perplexity-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 (3,938 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 809 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 2026-09-03.

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