Perplexity Ask MCP Server
Official Perplexity MCP server bridging agents to the Sonar API for live web research.
🛡️ AgentReady threat assessment
MAESTRO 7-layer threat model + OWASP AIVSS risk score for Perplexity Ask MCP Server, derived from its capabilities.
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Overview
Perplexity's official MCP server connects MCP clients to the Sonar API, enabling conversational, cited web research directly from an AI assistant. It authenticates with a Perplexity API key and returns web-grounded answers to the model. Because results include external web content, prompt injection via that content is the main risk to review.
Key features
- Live web-grounded Q&A via Sonar
- Cited search results
- API-key authentication
Use cases
- Real-time research inside coding agents
- Fact-checking and citation gathering