# Perplexity Agent MCP Server

Multi-step web research with citations via Perplexity's Agent API. Standard library only.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `perplexity-agent-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**11 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 8.

### Most discussed

### Support MCP protocol revision 2026-07-28

MCP `2026-07-28` is the largest breaking change in the protocol's history and lands within days of this release. This server targets `2025-11-25` (see [design spec §3.1 and D2](docs/specs/2026-07-22-perplexity-agent-mcp-design.md)).

**Nothing is broken today.** Every shipping client speaks `2025-11-25`, clients need their own dual-era support before the new revision is usable, and the spec allows a 12-month deprecation window. This issue exists so the work is tracked rather than remembered.

##

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zalez/perplexity-agent-mcp/issues/5) · 2026-07-24 · closed · 2 comments

### Dev-tool pins have fallen behind

| Tool | Pinned | Latest release | Update in |
|---|---|---|---|
| `astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit` | `v0.16.0` | **`v0.16.1`** | `.pre-commit-config.yaml + ci.yml` |
| `woodruffw/zizmor-pre-commit` | `v1.28.0` | **`v1.29.0`** | `.pre-commit-config.yaml` |

Bump by hand rather than with `pre-commit autoupdate` — it resolves to the newest tag on the upstream default branch, not the newest release, and has proposed a **downgrade** of `gitleaks` on this repo before.

`ruff` and `mypy` live in two files 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zalez/perplexity-agent-mcp/issues/30) · 2026-08-03 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Adopt the MCP Tasks extension once it stabilises

Deferred from #5 / #26, deliberately: dual-era support was already large and touched every result shape, and Tasks is a different question with a different blast radius. Better decided against a working dual-era baseline than tangled up with creating one.

## What changed upstream

Tasks moved **out of the core protocol and into an official extension** in `2026-07-28` ([SEP-2663](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2663)). It is no longer experimental. The redesign:

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zalez/perplexity-agent-mcp/issues/27) · 2026-08-01 · open · 1 comment

### Unknown-argument rejection is untested at the JSON-RPC level for perplexity_agent_result

All three tools declare `additionalProperties: false` and enforce it via `_reject_unknown_arguments`, which reads the declared schema rather than a hardcoded key list. The behaviour is correct for all three — verified directly during review.

The **test coverage** is not symmetric. Rejection is asserted end-to-end (through a real `tools/call` over stdio) for:

- `perplexity_agent` ✅
- `perplexity_agent_cancel` ✅
- `perplexity_agent_result` ❌ — behaviour confirmed correct by hand, but no test pin

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zalez/perplexity-agent-mcp/issues/11) · 2026-07-24 · closed · 1 comment

### Whole-tree `mypy --strict .` is clean but ungated

CI and pre-commit both scope mypy to the server file only:

```
mypy --strict perplexity_agent_mcp.py
```

Running `mypy --strict .` across the whole tree (including `tests/`) is **also** clean today, and not by accident — `pyproject.toml` carries a deliberate `[[tool.mypy.overrides]]` block added specifically so the bare invocation stays clean. But nothing enforces that. A future untyped change under `tests/` would pass CI silently while quietly breaking the property.

## Why it matters here sp

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zalez/perplexity-agent-mcp/issues/10) · 2026-07-24 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Dev-tool pins have fallen behind

| Tool | Pinned | Latest release | Update in |
|---|---|---|---|
| `astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit` | `v0.16.2` | **`v0.16.3`** | `.pre-commit-config.yaml + ci.yml` |
| `pre-commit/mirrors-mypy` | `v2.3.0` | **`v2.3.1`** | `.pre-commit-config.yaml + ci.yml` |

Bump by hand rather than with `pre-commit autoupdate` — it resolves to the newest tag on the upstream default branch, not the newest release, and has proposed a **downgrade** of `gitleaks` on this repo before.

`ruff` and `mypy` live in two fil

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zalez/perplexity-agent-mcp/issues/36) · 2026-08-17 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### README's Path B install pins a stale tag (v0.1.0) and claims it is current

Reported from an independent review. **Confirmed.**

## The defect

`README.md` disagrees with itself about which version this repository ships:

| Line | Content | State |
|---|---|---|
| 92 | `git+https://github.com/zalez/perplexity-agent-mcp@v0.1.0` | **stale** |
| 103 | "`@v0.1.0` above is a released version — **the one this repository ships as of this README**" | **stale, and now false** |
| 114 | `...@v0.2.0'` (the `llm` install line) | correct |

`__version__` is `0.2.0` and the latest re

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zalez/perplexity-agent-mcp/issues/17) · 2026-07-27 · closed · 0 comments

### Cosmetic: two very long URLs sharing a prefix render identically in the source list

Carried from review as a known cosmetic issue. Adversarial input only; no correctness impact.

`_extract_sources` truncates a URL at `_MAX_URL_CHARS` (2000) with a visible ellipsis, as part of bounding the payload so a runaway deep-research run cannot exhaust the client's context window.

If two genuinely different URLs share an identical first 2000 characters, their **rendered** forms in the `Sources:` list are byte-identical. A reader cannot tell the two citations apart.

## What is *not* affe

[Read the thread](https://github.com/zalez/perplexity-agent-mcp/issues/12) · 2026-07-24 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 11 reports Pod holds for Perplexity Agent](/mcp/perplexity-agent/issues).

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