perplexity-mcp-server

An MCP server that enables AI assistants to query Perplexity AI for web-grounded answers with citations and advanced search filters.

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// key findings

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Known vulnerabilities in dependencies: 3 high

Affects packages this MCP installs at runtime. Upgrade or remove the affected dependency.

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: PERPLEXITY_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configDISABLE_LOGGING— export ="true"

configENABLE_CONVERSATIONS— export ="true" # Default: true

configLOG_DIR— export ="./logs" # Custom log directory (default: ./logs)

configLOG_TO_STDERR— export ="true" # Default: true (console logging)

configMAX_HISTORY— export ="20" # Messages per session

🔐 secretPERPLEXITY_API_KEY— export ="pplx-your-api-key-here"

configPERPLEXITY_MODEL— export ="sonar" # Default: sonar, also: sonar-pro, sonar-reasoning

configSESSION_TIMEOUT— export ="1800" # Seconds, default: 30 minutes

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commit: 1fcaed6dc4f5d3bb2dd5691c2771065339bcfd17

code hash: 04b120d35b56b71acc6a374a0c7ffae5041de118de8ac5017fa109808b2e4cab

verified: 6/21/2026, 10:36:47 AM

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