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Perplexity Agent MCP

This community-built, zero-dependency MCP server exposes Perplexity's Agent API to AI agents via stdio. It enables multi-step web research with citations by starting research runs, collecting results, and canceling operations. It uses only the Python standard library, avoiding external SDKs or HTTP libraries, and is designed to run alongside official Perplexity servers that wrap Sonar models.

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Perplexity Agent MCP logo, by zalezCommunity listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by zalez
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What you can do with it

  • Perform multi-step web research with citations
  • Start asynchronous research runs and wait for results
  • Collect progress or final answers from research runs
  • Cancel ongoing research tasks

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.4.0
mcp-registry: io.github.zalez/perplexity-agent-mcp@0.4.0Source repositoryProject website
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perplexity-agent-mcp 0.4.0

pypiuvx
perplexity-agent-mcp package definition
{
  "version": "0.4.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "perplexity-agent-mcp",
  "runtimeHint": "uvx",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "Your Perplexity API key. Read at call time and sent only as an Authorization header to api.perplexity.ai; never logged or echoed."
    },
    {
      "name": "PERPLEXITY_AGENT_WAIT_SECONDS",
      "description": "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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Cursor

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perplexity-agent-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "perplexity-agent-mcp==0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PERPLEXITY_API_KEY>",
        "PERPLEXITY_AGENT_WAIT_SECONDS": "<YOUR_PERPLEXITY_AGENT_WAIT_SECONDS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perplexity-agent-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "perplexity-agent-mcp==0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PERPLEXITY_API_KEY>",
        "PERPLEXITY_AGENT_WAIT_SECONDS": "<YOUR_PERPLEXITY_AGENT_WAIT_SECONDS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "perplexity-agent-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "perplexity-agent-mcp==0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PERPLEXITY_API_KEY>",
        "PERPLEXITY_AGENT_WAIT_SECONDS": "<YOUR_PERPLEXITY_AGENT_WAIT_SECONDS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "perplexity-agent-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "perplexity-agent-mcp==0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PERPLEXITY_API_KEY>",
        "PERPLEXITY_AGENT_WAIT_SECONDS": "<YOUR_PERPLEXITY_AGENT_WAIT_SECONDS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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