Perplexity Ask MCP Server

Conversational AI with real-time web search via the Perplexity API. Exposes a single perplexity-ask tool.

Install


ark install marketplace/mcps/perplexity-ask-mcp

Or with Helm:


cd mcps/perplexity-ask-mcp
helm install perplexity-ask-mcp ./chart -n default --create-namespace

Tool	Description
`perplexity-ask`	Conversational AI with real-time web search

Accepts messages in the form [{"role": "user", "content": "<prompt>"}] and returns the Perplexity model response.

Set via Kubernetes Secret web-search-credentials:

Variable	Description
`perplexity-api-key`	Perplexity API key (from perplexity.ai )


export PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=your_key
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

Server listens on port 8000; MCP endpoint at /mcp (streamable HTTP).