Perplexity Agent API adds custom skills

// 1h agoPRODUCT UPDATE

Perplexity Agent API adds custom skills

Perplexity has introduced support for custom skills to its Agent API, enabling developers to define reusable instruction sets, playbooks, and custom tools. These skills allow the underlying agentic orchestration layer to execute complex, multi-step workflows unattended.

// ANALYSIS

Perplexity is shifting the developer paradigm from raw prompting to managed agent orchestration, making it significantly easier to build robust multi-step workflows.

–Integration of custom skills lowers the barrier to entry for building complex, domain-specific AI agents.
–Natively handling model orchestration and search retrieval reduces the boilerplate code developers typically write.
–This positions Perplexity's API not just as an LLM endpoint, but as a complete agent runtime.

// TAGS

perplexityperplexity-agent-apiagent-apicustom-skillsagentdevtool

DISCOVERED

1h ago

2026-07-17

PUBLISHED

2h ago

2026-07-17

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

AUTHOR

AravSrinivas

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