Perplexity Agent runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 175 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 29 Oct 2026.
Multi-step web research with citations via Perplexity's Agent API. Standard library only.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Perplexity Agent every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add perplexity-agent-mcp -e 'PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=<PERPLEXITY_API_KEY>' -- uvx perplexity-agent-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"perplexity-agent-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"perplexity-agent-mcp"
],
"env": {
"PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "<PERPLEXITY_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.perplexity-agent-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["perplexity-agent-mcp"]
env = { PERPLEXITY_API_KEY = "<PERPLEXITY_API_KEY>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"perplexity-agent-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"perplexity-agent-mcp"
],
"env": {
"PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "<PERPLEXITY_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"perplexity-agent-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"perplexity-agent-mcp"
],
"env": {
"PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "<PERPLEXITY_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<PERPLEXITY_API_KEY> (Your Perplexity API key. Read at call time and sent only as an Authorization header to api.perplexity.ai; never logged or echoed).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
PERPLEXITY_AGENT_WAIT_SECONDS (How long a blocking call waits before handing back a response_id to collect later. Defaults to 55, just inside Claude Desktop's unconfigurable 60s tool-call timeout. Raise to 300 on clients without that limit).
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