Is Perplexity User safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Perplexity User on public evidence — tashan score 56.0/100, it is currently active, note: a single primary maintainer (bus-factor risk), no known advisories against the current release. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Perplexity User?

In Claude Code: run `claude mcp add perplexity-user -- npx -y perplexity-user-mcp`. In Cursor / Claude Desktop, add it to mcp.json / claude_desktop_config.json.

Who maintains Perplexity User?

source: Automations-Project/VSCode-Perplexity-MCP.

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Perplexity User

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Perplexity AI MCP server — browser automation for search, reasoning, research, and compute. Not affiliated with Perplexity AI, Inc.

Works with: Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cline, Windsurf, VS Code (installable)
installable: each client documents how to load an MCP server of this type — that is the client's promise, not a claim verified against this capability

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Work: Browser automation

Who it is for: Software engineer · Operations

Install (Claude Code):

claude mcp add perplexity-user -- npx -y perplexity-user-mcp

tashan score: 56.0
Adoption: 238/wk
Upkeep: 65.0
Freshness: 90.0
Evidence coverage: 100% of the inputs this score can use
Health: active
License: MIT

Security audit

Every finding is shown in full — which advisory, the version that fixes it, and the exact command run at install time. Nothing in this audit is behind a licence.

No known advisoriesclearchecked against OSV for 0.8.60

No access inferred from declared dependenciesnothing it depends on reaches files, shell or network. This reads declarations only — built-in APIs are invisible to it, so absence of a declaration is not absence of access

Signed build provenancepublished from public CI with an attestation

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