What it does
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Give your agent Perplexity's web search, research, and reasoning tools through the official API Platform MCP server. The hosted integration brings current sources into an assistant without running a local server. Use it to investigate a topic or compare sources, supplying the research question, source constraints, and desired output.
- Connection
- Remote
- Authentication
- API key
- Works with
Connect your agent
Terminal
claude mcp add --transport http 'perplexity-mcp' 'https://api.perplexity.ai/mcp'Run this command, then open /mcp in Claude Code to finish connecting your account.
Add the remote Streamable HTTP endpoint to your MCP client. Configure your Perplexity API key as an Authorization bearer header using the client’s secure credential settings. Follow the official repository for client-specific configuration, available tools, and local-server alternatives.
