Enables chat completion requests with citations using the Perplexity API within an MCP server environment.
Perplexity MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Enables chat completion requests with citations using the Perplexity API within an MCP server environment.
Enables chat completion requests with citations using the Perplexity API within an MCP server environment.
Once Perplexity is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
ask_perplexity — Request chat completion with citations from PerplexityTools — The Tools tool exposed by this serverYou will need one environment variable: PERPLEXITY_API_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Perplexity's toolset — ask_perplexity, Tools — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by xiyuefox; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Perplexity's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| ask_perplexity | Request chat completion with citations from Perplexity |
| Tools | The Tools tool exposed by this server. |
"mcpServers": {
"Perplexity": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mcp-server-perplexity"
],
"env": {
"PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "your-perplexity-api-key"
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| PERPLEXITY_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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