Perplexity AI for AI agents
Agents read Perplexity AI at once. Changes and sends are held for a person's approval by default.
About Perplexity AI
Perplexity AI provides conversational AI models for generating human-like text responses
What an agent can do in Perplexity AI
Every Perplexity AI action is classed by the platform as a read, a change or a send. Reads run at once. Changes and sends are held for a person by default.
Runs at once (reads)
Looks things up in Perplexity AI without asking first. 3 actions.
- Get Async Chat CompletionGet Async Chat Completion (GET /v1/async/sonar/{id}). Retrieves the result of an asynchronous chat completion request by its ID. Use this to poll for the result after creating an async job. The respon
- List Async Chat CompletionsList Async Chat Completions (GET /v1/async/sonar). Retrieves a list of all asynchronous chat completion requests for the authenticated user. Use this to see the status of all your pending, completed,
- Perplexity Search (Raw Results)Search the Web (POST /search). Returns raw, ranked web search results directly from Perplexity's index without LLM processing. Faster and cheaper than chat completions when you need raw results. Suppo
Held for approval by default (changes and sends)
Held for a person's approval by default. The approval is recorded and the action is sent once, never twice, with 10 seconds to undo. 5 actions.
- Create Async Chat CompletionCreate Async Chat Completion (POST /v1/async/sonar). Submits an asynchronous chat completion request for long-running tasks. Returns immediately with a request ID that can be polled using the Get Asyn
- Create Chat CompletionPerplexity Sonar Chat Completions (POST /v1/sonar). Generates web-grounded conversational AI responses with citations. Supports multiple Sonar models optimized for different use cases: - sonar: Fast,
- Create Contextualized EmbeddingsCreate Contextualized Embeddings (POST /v1/contextualizedembeddings). Generates document-aware embeddings where chunks from the same document share context. Unlike standard embeddings, these recognize
- CreateEmbeddingsGenerate vector embeddings for independent texts (queries, sentences, documents). This action takes one or more input texts and generates vector embeddings using Perplexity AI's embedding models. Embe
- Execute AgentCreate Agent Response (POST /v1/agent). Orchestrates multi-step agentic workflows with built-in tools (web search, URL fetching, function calling), reasoning, and multi-model support. Streaming is not
Changes wait in Needs you
Changes and sends in Perplexity AI are held for a person's approval by default. The approval is recorded, and the action is sent once, never twice, with 10 seconds to undo.
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Can an agent change data in Perplexity AI on its own?
Not by default. Changes and sends in Perplexity AI are held for a person's approval. The approval is recorded, and the action is sent once, never twice, with 10 seconds to undo.
What can an agent read in Perplexity AI?
This connector lists 3 read actions. Reads run at once, without waiting for approval.
How does Perplexity AI connect?
It connects with API key. Connectors are built and maintained by third-party developers; availability is confirmed during scoping.