Perplexity Agent
Perplexity has added a new "Skills" capability to its Agent API, announced on July 18, 2026 by team member Alex Romanov on the official Perplexity API Platform Forum. The feature reframes agent construction as a composition problem, positioning agents as assemblies of multiple extensible capabilities rather than monoli The announcement directs developers to the official Skills documentation and a Research PDF cookbook, indicating Perplexity intends Skills as a first-class, documented extension surface for the managed Agent API rather than an experimental flag. The post also teases an "extended Skills Directory" coming soon, which wou