# Perplexity

> Perplexity AI search and research. Use for AI search.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-g1joshi-agent-skills-perplexity`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [G1Joshi](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/g1joshi)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Developer Tools](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/developer-tools)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [G1Joshi](https://github.com/G1Joshi)
- **Source:** https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/ai-ml/perplexity
- **Website:** https://skills.sh/g1joshi/agent-skills

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-g1joshi-agent-skills-perplexity
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Perplexity

Perplexity is an AI search engine. For developers, the **Sonar API** provides grounded, cited answers for building search-enabled apps.

## When to Use

- **Real-time Info**: "What is the stock price of Apple?" (LLMs can't answer this without tools).
- **Research Apps**: Building an app that needs to cite sources.
- **Citations**: You need reliability and links to original data.

## Core Concepts

### Sonar API

API access to Perplexity's online models (`llama-3-sonar-large-32k-online`).

### Citations

API returns a list of citations used to generate the answer.

### Pro Search

Multi-step reasoning search (Googles multiple times to answer complex queries).

## Best Practices (2025)

**Do**:

- **Use for Grounding**: If your chatbot needs current events, route those queries to Perplexity.
- **Use Search Options**: Filter by domain (e.g., search only `reddit.com` or `stackoverflow.com`).

**Don't**:

- **Don't use for creative writing**: It is optimized for facts, not fiction.

## References

- [Perplexity API](https://docs.perplexity.ai/)

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [G1Joshi](https://github.com/G1Joshi)
- **Source:** [G1Joshi/Agent-Skills](https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-Skills)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://skills.sh/g1joshi/agent-skills

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-g1joshi-agent-skills-perplexity
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/g1joshi
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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