Perplexity Agent MCP Server

Name: Perplexity Agent MCP Server
Author: io.github.zalez

io.github.zalez/perplexity-agent-mcp

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What is the Perplexity Agent MCP server?

Multi-step web research with citations via Perplexity's Agent API. Standard library only.

How to install Perplexity Agent

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

PERPLEXITY_API_KEY
required
secret
Your Perplexity API key. Read at call time and sent only as an Authorization header to api.perplexity.ai; never logged or echoed.
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.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

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

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

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

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add perplexity-agent-mcp --env PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=<YOUR_PERPLEXITY_API_KEY> --env PERPLEXITY_AGENT_WAIT_SECONDS=<YOUR_PERPLEXITY_AGENT_WAIT_SECONDS> -- uvx perplexity-agent-mcp