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Perplexity Research Assistant

dainfernalcoder/perplexity-mcp

It also forces the agent using the MCP to be specific.

Install

npx -y perplexity-mcp

Client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perplexity": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "perplexity-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "<PERPLEXITY_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment variables

PERPLEXITY_API_KEY
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About Perplexity Research Assistant

An intelligent research assistant powered by Perplexity's specialized AI models. Features automatic query complexity detection to route requests to the most appropriate model for optimal results. Unlike the Official server, it has search capabilities FOR EVERY TASK, essentially

Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README

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