Perplexity MCP Server

by tanigami
MIT License
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  • Apple

Integrations

  • Allows access to Perplexity API for chat completion with citations through the ask_perplexity tool

Perplexity MCP Server

MCP Server for the Perplexity API.

:warning: Limitations:

  • The Claude Desktop client may timeout if Perplexity processing takes too long
  • This issue might be resolved if Claude Desktop implements support for long running operations and progress reporting in the future
  • Implementation updates to handle these features will be made if they become available

Components

Tools

  • ask_perplexity: Request chat completion with citations from Perplexity

Quickstart

Install

Claude Desktop
  • On macOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
  • On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
"mcpServers": { "Perplexity": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "mcp-server-perplexity" ], "env": { "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "your-perplexity-api-key" } } }
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security - not tested
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license - permissive license
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quality - not tested

remote-capable server

The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.

Interacting with Perplexity API.

  1. Components
    1. Tools
  2. Quickstart
    1. Install
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