Perplexity Search

Gives Claude access to Perplexity's API for web searches and research tasks. You get four modes: quick answers for current events, deep research for comprehensive reports, advanced reasoning for complex analysis, and raw search results when you need URLs and snippets. The research and reason modes use Perplexity's thinking models, which means you can strip out the reasoning tags to save tokens if you want. Honestly most useful when you need Claude to pull real-time information or do multi-step research that benefits from Perplexity's web access. Requires your own API key, supports proxy configuration, and lets you specify country codes for regional results.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add dotneet/claude-code-marketplace --skill perplexity-search --agent claude-code

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Perplexity Search Skill

A skill for executing real-time web searches and research using the Perplexity API.

Purpose

This skill provides the following capabilities:

perplexity_ask - Answer general questions (using sonar-pro model)
perplexity_research - Deep research and comprehensive reports (using sonar-deep-research model)
perplexity_reason - Advanced reasoning and analysis (using sonar-reasoning-pro model)
perplexity_search - Retrieve web search results

When to Use

Use this skill in the following situations:

User needs up-to-date information
Received a question requiring web search
Asked to perform deep research or investigation
Complex analysis or reasoning is required
Keywords like "look up", "search for", "latest..." are included

Prerequisites

PERPLEXITY_API_KEY environment variable must be set
Internet connection must be available

Usage

Basic Usage

Use the scripts/perplexity_api.py script to call the API.

# General questions (ask)
python3 scripts/perplexity_api.py ask "your question"

# Deep research (research)
python3 scripts/perplexity_api.py research "research topic"

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