Agent-Skills.md

Agent Skills: Perplexity Search Skill

A skill for performing web searches, research, and reasoning using the Perplexity API. Handles real-time web information retrieval, deep research analysis, and advanced reasoning tasks. Use when the user asks for web searches, research, or says things like "look up", "search for", "latest information", "research", or "analyze".

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Skill Metadata

Name
perplexity-search
Description
A skill for performing web searches, research, and reasoning using the Perplexity API. Handles real-time web information retrieval, deep research analysis, and advanced reasoning tasks. Use when the user asks for web searches, research, or says things like "look up", "search for", "latest information", "research", or "analyze".

Perplexity Search Skill

A skill for executing real-time web searches and research using the Perplexity API.

Purpose

This skill provides the following capabilities:

  1. perplexity_ask - Answer general questions (using sonar-pro model)
  2. perplexity_research - Deep research and comprehensive reports (using sonar-deep-research model)
  3. perplexity_reason - Advanced reasoning and analysis (using sonar-reasoning-pro model)
  4. perplexity_search - Retrieve web search results

When to Use

Use this skill in the following situations:

  • User needs up-to-date information
  • Received a question requiring web search
  • Asked to perform deep research or investigation
  • Complex analysis or reasoning is required
  • Keywords like "look up", "search for", "latest..." are included

Prerequisites

  • PERPLEXITY_API_KEY environment variable must be set
  • Internet connection must be available

Usage

Basic Usage

Use the scripts/perplexity_api.py script to call the API.

# General questions (ask)
python3 scripts/perplexity_api.py ask "your question"

# Deep research (research)
python3 scripts/perplexity_api.py research "research topic"

# Advanced reasoning (reason)
python3 scripts/perplexity_api.py reason "reasoning task"

# Web search (search)
python3 scripts/perplexity_api.py search "search query" [--max-results 10] [--country JP]

Command Options

ask / research / reason

  • First argument: question, research topic, or reasoning task
  • --strip-thinking: Remove <think>...</think> tags to save context tokens (research/reason only)

search

  • First argument: search query
  • --max-results: Maximum number of results to return (1-20, default: 10)
  • --max-tokens-per-page: Maximum tokens per page (256-2048, default: 1024)
  • --country: ISO code for regional results (e.g., JP, US, GB)

Workflow

Standard Search Flow

  1. Analyze the user's question and select the appropriate tool

    • Simple questions → ask
    • Deep research → research
    • Complex analysis → reason
    • Information gathering → search

  2. Execute the script to call the API

  3. Present results to the user, citing sources when available

Tool Selection Guidelines

| Use Case | Tool | Description | |----------|------|-------------| | Current weather, news | ask | When quick answers are needed | | Technical topic research | research | When comprehensive analysis is needed | | Complex problem analysis | reason | When logical reasoning is needed | | Collecting sources | search | When URLs or snippets are needed |

API Details

For detailed API specifications, see references/api_reference.md.

Troubleshooting

  • API Key Error: Verify the PERPLEXITY_API_KEY environment variable
  • Timeout: Increase PERPLEXITY_TIMEOUT_MS (default: 300000ms)
  • Proxy Issues: Set PERPLEXITY_PROXY or HTTPS_PROXY