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Perplexity MCP

Web-grounded search and research with citations, wired in as a tool. Research legs cite sources instead of guessing from training data.

What it is

Web-grounded search, research, and reasoning as MCP tools: quick cited answers, deep multi-source investigation, and recency-filtered search. It gives research legs live sources instead of training-data guesses.

Why

Training data has a cutoff and no receipts. Research legs that cite live sources can be checked; answers reconstructed from memory can only be believed.

How I use it

Research fan-outs route here — market scans, library comparisons, fact checks — with citations carried into the synthesis. When the server fails, the fallback is named out loud in the next message, never silently swapped.

Get it

Add a Perplexity MCP server with an API key, or substitute any web-grounded search tool your client supports. The practice is cited-retrieval-first for anything factual.

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