perplexity-search

perplexity-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SELAT-AI/selat-openclaw-skills. It costs 166 tokens per session (1,750 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-search and research tool that retrieves ranked results, page content, and source links through Perplexity. It can also document one-shot answers or longer research reports, with calls paid from the user’s wallet in USDC, a cryptocurrency.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when asked to search the web, investigate a current topic, or prepare an answer with citations. It supports ordinary searches and, when confirmed, more extensive research requests.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent a way to gather current information with sources when its built-in knowledge is not enough. The wallet payment model means searches and escalated research calls can incur real charges.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it when asked to search the web, investigate a current topic, or prepare an answer with citations. It supports ordinary searches and, when confirmed, more extensive research requests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/selat-ai/selat-openclaw-skills/perplexity-search
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 SELAT-AI/selat-openclaw-skills --skill perplexity-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SELAT-AI/selat-openclaw-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,750 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.
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 $0.00166 $0.01750
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.00875
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00175

Measured 12d ago against content hash f4348829c7cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 12d 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/perplexity-search/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A keyless Perplexity research toolkit over SELAT. The default action is a cheap web Search — ranked results with page content and source URLs that you (the agent) synthesize into a cited answer. When a search-and-synthesize pass isn't enough, the skill also documents two escalations — a one-shot Agent answer and an async deep-research report — that you run per the installed skill's own guidance, always confirming the cost first.

It wraps a SELAT skill: a declarative, vetted recipe of paid API calls (no API keys, no signups) settled in USDC — routed x402 on Base through the SELAT Router. The selat CLI resolves the vetted endpoints and prints a receipt.

Cost — read this first

  • Every call is real USDC from the user's own Circle Agent Wallet (MPC self-custody — SELAT never holds keys or funds).
  • Prices and spend limits live in the underlying SELAT skill, not here — the live 402 quote from selat skill verify/run is the price source of truth, so this wrapper doesn't restate dollar figures (they'd only drift).
  • The quote the CLI shows already includes SELAT's ~5% routing markup — it's the final settled charge; nothing is added on top.
  • The default Web Search is the wired selat skill run step. Agent answer and deep research are separate, agent-run paid calls — each its own spend, so tell the user the cost (from its live quote) and get a yes before every escalation.
  • Always dry-run first (Step 1 — free, no wallet) for the default step, show the user the real quoted price, and get their OK before any wallet setup or paid run.
  • Never ask for, paste, or handle a private key. Wallet auth is the CLI's Circle integration.

Step 0 — get the CLI (free, no account)

selat --version || npm install -g @selat-ai/selat-cli

Installing the CLI creates nothing money-related — no wallet, no account, no keys.

Step 1 — dry run first, before any wallet setup

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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. 12d ago First seen · 151 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A f4348829c7cc

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perplexity-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository SELAT-AI/selat-openclaw-skills (2 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 1,750 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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