Perform real-time web research and retrieve AI-synthesized answers backed by online sources. Combine search and reasoning capabilities to support information gathering and analysis.
OpenClaw is a self-hosted agent gateway. It connects to remote MCP servers over streamable HTTP, configured in one file.
This guide connects Perplexity to OpenClaw through MewCP, so OpenClaw can use Perplexity's 3 tools, like search, get_models and health_check, without your Perplexity credentials ever reaching the app.
Your Perplexity API key is stored encrypted and injected only at call time. Your agent never holds it, so it can never leak it, log it or paste it into a prompt.
More apps
Crawl websites and extract clean structured data optimized for AI applications and automation. Collect content from the web at scale while maintaining high-quality outputs.
Extract structured data from websites and public web pages. Fetch content, parse information and transform online data into formats that can be consumed by applications, agents and workflows.
TinyFish MCP for running AI-driven browser automation tasks, deep web research, persistent browser login profiles, remote CDP browser sessions, and agentic wallet payments.
TypeSafe's Jev model for typed decisions — ask yes/no, multiple-choice or rubric-score questions about a block of state and get calibrated probabilities back instead of prose. Built for classification, routing and scoring steps inside a workflow
Other clients
Perplexity works the same way in every client below. Pick yours for its own guide.
Free to start.
Scope access to the exact Perplexity tools and accounts you allow, work and personal side by side. Anything outside that scope is refused at call time, even when the model asks for it.
Each call is logged: what ran, on which account, and whether it worked. Failures come back structured, so the agent knows whether to retry instead of guessing.
Every app sits behind one secure MCP URL, and there is no server for you to deploy or keep running. Add an integration in the dashboard and it is live on the next call, with no config to change and no new credentials to wire up. Tools load only when a task needs them, so your agent stays fast and focused however many apps you connect.
Edit ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json. Create it if it doesn't exist.
Restart OpenClaw. Sign in when the browser window opens.
Start a new chat and ask: "List the tools you can use from MewCP." You should see your connected apps.
Search the web using Perplexity AI. Returns an LLM-generated response with citations from online sources. Use this for queries that need current information, news, or factual answers with references.
List all available models from Perplexity AI, including both online and offline models.
Check server readiness and basic connectivity.
