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Computer acts in outside systems through more than 400 app connectors, with authenticated integrations for Gmail, Outlook, GitHub, Linear, Slack, Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Snowflake and MySQL. Organizations add their own tools as custom remote MCP connectors over HTTPS, and for a service with no connector, Computer can use custom API credentials added for one task, saved to a personal vault or shared with a project, with the raw secret kept out of the sandbox. Admins choose which connectors the organization can use and what each may do.

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A request becomes a set of tasks and subtasks, and Computer creates subagents to carry them out, one researching the web, another generating documents, another processing data or calling a connected service, coordinating them asynchronously until the deliverable is done. When it gets stuck, it spins up further subagents to find what it needs or to write code. Dozens of Computer sessions can run in parallel, a task can carry on for hours or across days, and sessions can be forked, renamed, pinned and archived.

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Files synced from Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, Dropbox or Box, or uploaded to a Project, persist as copies that sessions draw on, with Perplexity selecting the relevant sections, and importing again refreshes them. Standard search can also query a connected service live at the moment of the question without copying anything. Personal synced files are searchable only by the person who synced them, shared Project files by anyone given access, and full contents stay behind the permissions of the source service.

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Setting up an Automation means choosing which actions Computer may take on its own and which must wait for human review, and admins can limit what each connector is allowed to do. Reusing a saved API credential needs the user's approval. On a Mac, the privacy gate in Personal Computer can mask sensitive details, keep a step local, refuse it or ask for consent before protected file information reaches the cloud, and Portable Computer asks permission before anything leaves the device. Computer in Email has no review step of its own, and its replies go only to the verified sender.

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Enterprise plans carry SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance, SAML single sign on, including Okta, and SCIM provisioning, and annual contracts add custom roles with granular permissions mapped to identity provider groups, each with its own monthly credit limit. Admins can switch Computer off or limit it to chosen members, restrict which models it may use, turn connectors on or off and enforce incognito mode. Enterprise data is never used for model training, and customers can bring their own encryption keys, so revoking a key locks the agent out of the protected data.

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Audit logs record every Computer task start, automated agent action, completion and error, along with queries, answers, file uploads and downloads, shared and deleted threads, connector changes and role changes. They stream in real time to an HTTPS webhook, formatted for Splunk's HTTP Event Collector or for Slack, and need 50 seats or at least one Enterprise Max seat. Computer Analytics charts daily credit use by model, top connectors, skills and projects and average task duration, with every panel exportable and an analytics API for enterprises.

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Brain is a self improving memory that background agents write from a user's own sessions, connected tools, files and corrections into a wiki of concepts, entities and workstreams, each entry linked to its source. It is scoped to one user and leaves incognito sessions out, and its owner can browse, edit or delete any entry on the Memory page or turn it off, while enterprise admins can disable it for members. Brain is a research preview for Max and Enterprise Max subscribers using Computer, and account memory keeps preferences until the user deletes them.

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Computer usually runs in Perplexity's cloud, each task in its own sandbox. From October 20, 2026, regulated institutions can run it on servers they own, in clouds they control or in air gapped networks with no link to outside model APIs or the public web, through a partnership with the UK sovereign infrastructure company Valarian, arranged with Perplexity's sovereign AI team. On a Mac, hybrid mode keeps private files and sensitive steps on a local model, and Portable Computer runs the model and agent on Windows and Linux devices, reaching the cloud only with permission.

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Plugins bundle skills, connectors and files, up to 32 skills and 15 remote MCP servers in one package, and the Discover tab lists plugins, connectors and skills published by Perplexity by category, installed in one step and called with a slash. Teams can also write their own skills, import them as markdown or upload a plugin from a ZIP or a public GitHub repository, with admins deciding who may publish for the organization. Computer for Counsel adds a legal bundle with Midpage case law, Deel compliance data and connectors for Box, Docusign and NetDocuments.

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Automations start Computer on a schedule, such as every Monday at 8 a.m., or when something happens in Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Linear or GitHub, and a condition can narrow an event trigger to, for example, emails from one sender that ask for a decision. Watching for a trigger uses no credits. People also hand Computer work by forwarding or copying computer@perplexity.com on an email, by message in Slack or Microsoft Teams, and from the web, iOS and Android apps, and each Automation keeps a run history and can be paused or edited.

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Effort mode offers Light, Standard, High and Ultra settings, with Perplexity picking the model and reasoning level for each and cheaper models on the lower settings, and anyone who wants control can choose a specific model and reasoning level in custom controls. Computer draws on about 20 models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI, assigning them to subtasks such as deep research, images, video and quick lookups. Admins can restrict which models Computer may use, and analytics break credit spend down by model.

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The Agent API exposes Perplexity's managed agent runtime at POST /v1/agent on api.perplexity.ai, with a /v1/responses alias for OpenAI SDK compatibility, bearer key authentication and official Python and TypeScript SDKs. A request names a model from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or xAI, with fallback chains, or an effort preset, and can call web_search, fetch_url, finance_search and a sandbox tool, while custom functions reach the developer's own systems. Separate Search, Embeddings and Decisions APIs and an enterprise analytics API round out the platform.

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Check Sources reports how well a Search or Computer answer is supported by the sources it cites, and a Sources panel sets those citations beside the answer for side by side review. Automations keep a run history, and Computer Analytics tracks task duration, artifacts and credit use over time. There is no place to define test cases, score a Computer task or skill against expected results, or compare runs before an Automation or plugin goes out to the whole organization.

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Each Computer task runs with a real browser inside its sandbox, which the agent drives as part of its research and tasks, operating the same interfaces a person would. On a Mac, Personal Computer goes further and operates Mail, Finder, Slack, Messages, Notes and other native apps directly, with on device authorization protecting sensitive steps. Installed app control is not yet available on Windows, and admins of managed accounts decide whether local models may run on members' machines.

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