Nodal-Agents
ReferenceMCP connectors

Perplexity

Real-time web search and research — gives an agent perplexity_search, perplexity_ask, perplexity_research (deep research with citations), and perplexity_reason (Sonar models). Runs the official Perplexity MCP server locally via npx.

Real-time web search and research — gives an agent perplexity_search, perplexity_ask, perplexity_research (deep research with citations), and perplexity_reason (Sonar models). Runs the official Perplexity MCP server locally via npx.

Slug: perplexity

Transport: stdio (local subprocess)

Auth: n/a (local subprocess — uses env vars, not an HTTP key)

Command: npx -y @perplexity-ai/mcp-server@0.9.0

Env vars: PERPLEXITY_API_KEY

Setup: Create an API key at https://console.perplexity.ai (Settings → API; keys start with pplx-) and set PERPLEXITY_API_KEY below. First run downloads the package via npx (requires network, ~5 s latency).