perplexity-sonar-mcp 0.2.2

Tiny MCP server for Perplexity Sonar web search

perplexity-sonar-mcp

Tiny Python MCP server for Perplexity web search — 3 tools with escalating depth.

Tools

Tool	Speed	Use for
web_search(query)	2-5s	Quick facts, simple lookups
web_ask(query)	5-15s	Thorough answers, literature discovery
deep_research(query)	2-10 min	Comprehensive multi-step analysis

Both web_search and web_ask accept optional focus ("academic", "finance") and recency ("day", "week", "month", "year") parameters.

Setup

pip install -e .
export PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=pplx-...
perplexity-sonar-mcp  # starts stdio MCP server

MCP client config

{
  "name": "perplexity",
  "cmd": ["perplexity-sonar-mcp"],
  "env": {"PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "pplx-..."}
}