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name: researching-web description: Search the web using Perplexity AI. Use when needing to search, look up, research, find current information, best practices, compare technologies, or answer factual questions about tools and libraries. allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, mcp__perplexity-ask__perplexity_ask

Web Research with Perplexity

Use mcp__perplexity-ask__perplexity_ask for web search.

When to Use

• Best practices and recommendations
• Current information (releases, news)
• Comparisons between technologies
• Factual questions about tools/libraries

Usage

Copy{
  "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Your research question" }]
}

Tips

• Be specific: "Go error handling best practices 2024"
• Include context: "Redis vs Memcached for session storage"
• Ask comparisons: "Pros and cons of gRPC vs REST"