An intelligent Perplexity research MCP server for Claude Desktop with automatic model selection, multi-model synthesis, and persistent research history.
perplexity-mcp is an MCP project maintained in the family-it-guy/perplexity-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “An intelligent Perplexity research MCP server for Claude Desktop with automatic model selection, multi-model synthesis, and persistent research history”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The documented npm package is @familyitguy/perplexity-mcp. The configuration below comes from the maintainer’s example; adapt its paths and account values to your environment.
The example declares PERPLEXITY_API_KEY. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
Check the linked publisher documentation and your connected client's tool list. Names and availability can vary with the server version and account permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| deep_research | |
| search_research | |
| list_research_threads | |
| read_research_thread | |
| list_models |
{
"mcpServers": {
"perplexity-research": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@familyitguy/perplexity-mcp"
],
"env": {
"PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "YOUR_PERPLEXITY_API_KEY"
}
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| PERPLEXITY_API_KEY | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Yes |
Retrieve public web pages as readable Markdown with the reference Fetch MCP server, including pagination for longer responses.
Use Firecrawl MCP to retrieve website content and extract information for research through Firecrawl’s API-backed web tools.
Crawl documentation sites into local corpora agents can search, read, and diff fully offline.
Pure-Go browser for AI: fetch pages, render JS without Chromium, return clean Markdown over MCP.
Autonomous agent payments: wallet, email, web search, image/video/music gen, X search, code exec.
一个通过智谱 AI 开放平台（BigModel）的 Web Search API 提供网页搜索能力的命令行工具，并符合 Model-Code-Protocol (MCP) 规范。