Perplexity appears to be building remote MCP support, with early work showing integrations for the Linear issue tracker and Notion. These options would be accessible in the same interface as the existing source toggles like Social, Academic, and Finance, suggesting that MCP connectors will blend directly into Perplexity’s search and task execution workflow. When enabled, the service could retrieve data from these external tools and potentially perform actions within them via the web. This mirrors OpenAI’s trajectory, which started with a set of fixed connectors before allowing users to add their own custom remote MCPs — a direction Perplexity may also follow.
The addition of MCP capabilities to Perplexity’s macOS desktop app earlier this year set the foundation for this, and it’s likely that once the web version gains MCP support, browser-based use will follow immediately. Given its current development state, no release window is confirmed, but this aligns with Perplexity’s broader push into agent-like workflows, where integrations with productivity tools like Notion and Linear position it as more than a search engine. This move would put it closer to competing with AI assistants that operate across apps and data sources rather than just aggregating information.
