Perplexity Agent MCP Server

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

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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).

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 · 2026-07-24 · closed · 2 comments

Dev-tool pins have fallen behind

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 · 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). It is no longer experimental. The redesign:

Read the thread · 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 · 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 · 2026-07-24 · closed · 1 comment

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Dev-tool pins have fallen behind

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 · 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:

__version__ is 0.2.0 and the latest re

Read the thread · 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 · 2026-07-24 · closed · 0 comments

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