Perplexity Search Skill

Search the web using Perplexity's Search API for ranked, real-time web results with advanced filtering. Use when you need to search for current information, market research, trending topics, or when Brave Search is unavailable. Supports recency filtering (day/week/month/year) and returns structured results with titles, URLs, and snippets.

This skill appears to be a straightforward Perplexity Search API wrapper and requests only a single API key. Before installing, verify the skill's source (the metadata had inconsistent homepage info — skill.json points to a GitHub repo), review the included scripts yourself, and confirm the API endpoint (https://api.perplexity.ai/search) matches Perplexity's official docs. Store your PERPLEXITY_API_KEY in your OpenClaw config (or otherwise secure it), monitor API usage/billing after first use, and rotate the key if anything looks suspicious. If you need stronger guarantees, run the script locally first and inspect network calls or host it in a sandboxed environment before enabling agent-autonomous invocation.

Type: OpenClaw Skill Name: perplexity-search-skill Version: 1.0.0 The skill is designed for web searching via the Perplexity API, demonstrating strong security practices. It securely handles the API key by loading it from environment variables, performs input validation on parameters, and sanitizes all output to prevent terminal injection. The Python script uses only standard libraries, eliminating supply chain risks, and includes robust error handling with network timeouts. There is no evidence of data exfiltration, malicious execution, persistence mechanisms, or prompt injection attempts against the OpenClaw agent in any of the analyzed files (SKILL.md, scripts/search.py, README.md, SECURITY_AUDIT.md).