Perplexity Search

by escapeWu

Perplexity Search is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by escapeWu in perplexity-ai.

166 stars25 forkson escapeWu/perplexity-aiAdded 2026/09/08+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/19

View source on GitHub Download repo ZIP

2apiclaude-codemcpoaiperplexity-aipoolskill

Install in seconds

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/escapeWu/perplexity-ai/tree/main/.agents/skills/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/escapeWu/perplexity-ai.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/perplexity-search/SKILL.md in escapeWu/perplexity-ai
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/perplexity-search
Collection: One of 4 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2226 skills

What Perplexity Search does

Perplexity Search runs current public-web searches and deep research through a fixed REST-backed CLI with cited results. Use it for recent facts, news, fact checks, comparisons, and source-backed investigations.

Perplexity Search is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Perplexity Search comes from a repository tagged 2api, claude-code, mcp, oai and perplexity-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Perplexity Search

Use this project skill as the default path for current public-web research. It wraps the self-hosted escapeWu/perplexity-ai OpenAI-compatible REST endpoint with a small deterministic CLI, so Agents do not need to construct requests or select model IDs by hand.

Default behavior

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

Commands Perplexity Search provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/v1

Frequently asked about Perplexity Search

What else does escapeWu publish alongside Perplexity Search?
Perplexity Search is one of 4 skills that DirSkills catalogs from escapeWu/perplexity-ai, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Bump Version, Perplexity Search and Server Deploy. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Perplexity Search does, and is maintained by escapeWu in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the escapeWu/perplexity-ai page.
How does Perplexity Search compare to other Automation skills?
Perplexity Search ranks #2021 by stars among the 2226 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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.