Perplexity Search

by LeonChaoX

Perplexity Search is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by LeonChaoX in qinyan-academic-skills.

814 stars68 forkson LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skillsAdded 2026/08/22Repository updated 2026/07/20

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Install Perplexity Search

Copy Perplexity Search 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/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills/tree/main/skills/01-%E8%AE%BA%E6%96%87%E6%A3%80%E7%B4%A2%E4%B8%8E%E6%96%87%E7%8C%AE%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86/perplexity-search' ~/.claude/skills/perplexity-search

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/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/01-论文检索与文献管理/perplexity-search/SKILL.md in LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/perplexity-search
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Perplexity Search does

Perplexity Search performs real-time web searches through Perplexity models via LiteLLM and OpenRouter. Use it to find current information, recent research, and grounded answers with source citations.

Perplexity Search is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Perplexity Search comes from a repository tagged academic, ai-assistant, arxiv, claude-code and google-scholar.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Perplexity Search

Overview

Perform AI-powered web searches using Perplexity models through LiteLLM and OpenRouter. Perplexity provides real-time, web-grounded answers with source citations, making it ideal for finding current information, recent scientific literature, and facts beyond the model's training data cutoff.

This skill provides access to all Perplexity models through OpenRouter, requiring only a single API key (no separate Perplexity account needed).

When to Use This Skill

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

Frequently asked about Perplexity Search

What else does LeonChaoX publish alongside Perplexity Search?
Perplexity Search is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include BGPT Paper Search, Citation Management and Generate Image. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Perplexity Search does, and is maintained by LeonChaoX in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills page.
How does Perplexity Search compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Perplexity Search ranks #1575 by stars among the 2451 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 Search against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.