Perplexity Search

by escapeWu

Perplexity Search is an AI Engineering 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

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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/escapeWu/perplexity-ai/tree/main/.claude/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: .claude/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: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Perplexity Search does

Perplexity Search uses the Perplexity API to answer questions with web-backed search results. Use it when an agent needs current information or sourced answers from the web.

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

Documentation

README

From the original repository

reference：https://github.com/escapeWu/skills/blob/main/skills/perplexity-search/SKILL.md

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 AI Engineering skills?
Perplexity Search ranks #3338 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 Search against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.