Perplexity

by zapier

Perplexity is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by zapier in connectors.

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Install Perplexity

Copy Perplexity into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/zapier/connectors/tree/main/apps/perplexity ~/.claude/skills/perplexity

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/zapier/connectors.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: apps/perplexity/SKILL.md in zapier/connectors
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/perplexity
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Perplexity does

Perplexity asks web-grounded questions with citations, runs and polls deep research jobs, lists available models, and searches the web. Use it for current answers or ranked search results.

Perplexity is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Perplexity comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentskills, ai-agents, automation and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Perplexity

Agent-callable tools for Perplexity: ask a question and get a current, web-grounded answer with citations, poll a long-running research job, discover the available models, and run a ranked web search. Wraps the Perplexity Agent API and Search API (https://api.perplexity.ai).

Independent, unofficial connector for Perplexity. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Perplexity. "Perplexity" is a trademark of its owner, used only to identify the service this connector works with.

When to use this

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Perplexity

What else does zapier publish alongside Perplexity?
Perplexity is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from zapier/connectors, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Algolia, Alpaca and Clay. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Perplexity does, and is maintained by zapier in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the zapier/connectors page.
How does Perplexity compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Perplexity ranks #3382 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Perplexity against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.