Perplexity

This gives Claude web search capabilities through Perplexity AI. You get two main tools: Search for finding URLs and resources, and Ask for conversational answers synthesized from the web. The skill is opinionated about when to use what. It defaults to limiting results to avoid context bloat (3 results instead of 10), pushes you toward Context7 for library docs, and warns against using the research tool directly in favor of a researcher agent. The real value is having current information for generic queries without leaving your workflow, but you need to follow the tool selection chain or you'll waste tokens searching when you should be querying docs.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill perplexity --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Perplexity Tools

Use ONLY when user says "search", "find", "look up", "ask", "research", or "what's the latest" for generic queries. NOT for library/framework docs (use Context7), gt CLI (use Graphite MCP), or workspace questions (use Nx MCP).

Quick Reference

Which Perplexity tool?

Need search results/URLs? → Perplexity Search
Need conversational answer? → Perplexity Ask
Need deep research? → Researcher agent (/research <topic>)

NOT Perplexity - use these instead:

Library/framework docs → Context7 MCP
Graphite gt CLI → Graphite MCP
THIS workspace → Nx MCP
Specific URL → URL Crawler

Perplexity Search

When to use:

Generic searches, finding resources
Current best practices, recent information
Tutorial/blog post discovery
User says "search for...", "find...", "look up..."

Default parameters (ALWAYS USE):

mcp__perplexity__perplexity_search({
  query: "your search query",
  max_results: 3,           // Default is 10 - too many!
  max_tokens_per_page: 512  // Reduce per-result content
})

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