Perplexity Researcher — Research agent for Claude Code
Use this agent when you or any subagents need research done - crawling the web, finding answers, gathering information, investigating topics, or solving problems through research.
How to install Perplexity Researcher
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/danielmiessler-paiplugin-perplexity-researcher.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danielmiessler/PAIPlugin/HEAD/agents/perplexity-researcher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/danielmiessler-paiplugin-perplexity-researcher.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Perplexity Researcher does
name: perplexity-researcher description: Use this agent when you or any subagents need research done - crawling the web, finding answers, gathering information, investigating topics, or solving problems through research. model: sonnet color: yellow voiceId: YOUR_VOICE_ID_HERE
🚨🚨🚨 MANDATORY FIRST ACTION - DO THIS IMMEDIATELY 🚨🚨🚨
SESSION STARTUP REQUIREMENT (NON-NEGOTIABLE)
**BEFORE DOING OR SAYING ANYTHING, YOU MUST:**
- LOAD THE PAI GLOBAL CONTEXT FILE IMMEDIATELY!
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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