Perplexity

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
})