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How to connect Perplexityai MCP with Cursor

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How to integrate Perplexityai MCP with Cursor

Cursor is one of the leading AI-powered code editors. It is built to help developers write, understand, and refactor code faster with AI assistance built directly into the editor.

And in this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your Perplexityai account to Cursor via Composio Connect, so it can summarize the latest AI research papers, generate a creative story about space travel, explain quantum computing in simple terms, and more without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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Why Composio?

  • 1,500+ SaaS toolkits out of the box. Skip the work of building and maintaining integrations, Composio gives you instant access to a vast catalog of pre-built connectors.
  • One MCP server for every app. Connect any of your applications on demand through a single endpoint, rather than juggling a separate server for each app.
  • Smart, context-aware tool loading. Unlike traditional MCP servers that dump every available tool into the LLM context window, Composio searches for and loads only the tools relevant to the task at hand. A remote CLI workbench lets LLMs compose these tools into workflows for complex automation.

Connect Perplexityai to Cursor

Two ways to install — pick whichever you prefer.

1. Install with one click

Click the button below to add Composio to Cursor.

↗Install in Cursor

2. Or add manually

Add to your Cursor mcp.json

Open .cursor/mcp.json in your project root (or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for global config) and add the following configuration:

bash
{
  "servers": {
    "composio": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

3. Authorize

Restart Cursor, then click "Connect" next to Composio in MCP Tools settings.

Cursor MCP Tools settings with Connect button next to Composio

A browser window will open to authorize.

Composio authorization browser window

Connect your Perplexityai account

Back in Cursor, ask the agent to connect to Perplexityai or give it any Perplexityai-related task.

For example, ask it to:

  • "Summarize the latest AI research papers"
  • "Generate a creative story about space travel"
  • "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access to Perplexityai.

That is it. Composio tools are now available in Cursor, and your Perplexityai account is ready to use.

Conclusion

You have successfully connected Perplexityai to Cursor using Composio Connect. Your agent can now use Perplexityai securely without exposing credentials in prompts or local scripts.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Perplexityai action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Cancel Agent Response

Request cancellation of an existing durable agent response.

Create Async Chat Completion

Create Async Chat Completion (POST /v1/async/sonar).

Create Chat Completion

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Create Contextualized Embeddings

Create Contextualized Embeddings (POST /v1/contextualizedembeddings).

CreateEmbeddings

Generate vector embeddings for independent texts (queries, sentences, documents).

Create Orchestrator Chat Completion

Create a non-streaming OpenAI-compatible chat completion using a cataloged Orchestrator model.

Create Orchestrator Message

Create a non-streaming Anthropic-compatible message using an Orchestrator catalog model.

CreateOrchestratorResponse

Generate a non-streaming model response through the Perplexity Orchestrator using a creator/model-name catalog ID, input text or structured items, optional tools, and structured output settings.

Create Skill

Create a Project-owned skill from a ZIP bundle containing SKILL.

Delete Skill

Delete a skill only if its current revision matches expected_revision.

Download Agent Response File

Download a file delivered by an Agent response's share_file tool.

Evaluate Decisions

Evaluate named yes/no, choice, and score questions against shared content.

Execute Agent

Create Agent Response (POST /v1/agent).

Get Agent Response

Retrieve a stored Agent response as a JSON snapshot (GET /v1/agent/{id}).

Get Async Chat Completion

Get Async Chat Completion (GET /v1/async/sonar/{id}).

Get Member Usage Analytics

Get organization Perplexity usage per member in daily UTC buckets.

Get Orchestrator Model

Retrieve one Orchestrator model by its full provider/model id.

Get Skill

Get a skill's metadata by identifier, optionally at a specific revision.

Get Skill Download URL

Get a short-lived URL to download a skill bundle as a zip.

Get Usage Analytics

Get an organization's Perplexity Computer usage as a bucketed time series.

List Agent Response Files

List files an agent response delivered from its sandbox using share_file.

List Async Chat Completions

Deprecated by the provider on 2026-09-27: asynchronous Sonar is no longer supported.

List Models

List Models (GET /v1/models).

List Orchestrator Models

List available Orchestrator API models sorted by id, with base token prices.

List Skill Revisions

List a skill's revisions, newest first.

List Skills

List skills in the authenticated Project, newest first.

Perplexity Search (Raw Results)

Search the Web (POST /search).

Update Skill

Upload a new ZIP bundle as a revision of an existing Project-owned skill.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Perplexityai MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Perplexityai tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Perplexityai and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Cursor fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Perplexityai tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Perplexityai scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Perplexityai data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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