Connects Claude to Perplexity's API for real-time web searches and research capabilities. You get access to Perplexity's reasoning models and up-to-date information retrieval without building your own web scraping infrastructure. Reach for this when you need Claude to answer questions about current events, verify facts against live sources, or pull in fresh data that's outside its training window. The stdio transport keeps setup straightforward. You'll need a Perplexity API key to authenticate requests.
claude mcp add --transport stdio io.github.perplexityai-mcp-server -- npx -y @perplexity-ai/mcp-server