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Connectors / AI · HTTP Connector
Automate Perplexity with Tray.ai
Create an agent response, create a chat completion and create embeddings in Perplexity. Connect Perplexity to the rest of your AI stack with Tray.ai.
What can you do with Perplexity on Tray.ai?
Perplexity is an AI answer engine whose API returns web-grounded answers with citations, raw web search results, embeddings and access to hosted models. Tray.ai connects to Perplexity through the HTTP Connector, so your workflows can call the Perplexity API alongside the rest of your stack.
- Search the web for news about each new account in your CRM and add a short brief to the record.
- Create a chat completion that drafts a reply for each new help desk ticket, for an agent to review.
- Create embeddings for knowledge base articles so your support search finds answers by meaning.
- Connects through
- HTTP Connector
- Authentication
- A bearer token
- Base URL
- https://api.perplexity.ai
Set it up
Connect Perplexity to Tray.ai
Each step uses Perplexity's own API details, from its documentation.
Step 1
Save Perplexity's API token
Save the token Perplexity issues as a Tray.ai authentication. The HTTP Client sends it as a bearer token on every call. The token stays out of the workflow and out of the logs.
Step 2
Point the HTTP Client at the API
Add an HTTP Client step and use https://api.perplexity.ai as the base URL. Or paste a cURL example from Perplexity's API docs, and Tray.ai fills in the method, URL, and headers.
Step 3
Start with “Get an agent response”
It's one of 14 documented actions, under Agent responses. The response comes back as data the next step can map into your other apps.
Step 4
Hand it to an AI agent
Wrap “Create an agent response” and “List response files” in workflows, and Tray.ai's Agent Gateway for MCP publishes them as governed tools Claude and other AI agents can call.
Give your AI agents Perplexity tools
Build an MCP server on Perplexity in Agent Gateway and choose which actions your agents can call. Every call runs with access control and an audit trail. How Agent Gateway works
- Create an agent response
- Search the web
- Create a chat completion
- Create embeddings
- List skills
- Get an agent response
- Cancel an agent response
- List response files
What the Perplexity API covers
5 resources and 14 documented actions, each one a call the HTTP Connector can make from a Tray.ai workflow. Connecting it takes a few clicks: here's how.
Agent responses
- Create an agent response
- Get an agent response
- Cancel an agent response
- List response files
Search and decisions
- Search the web
- Answer typed questions
Chat completions
- Create a chat completion
- List models
Embeddings
- Create embeddings
- Create contextualized embeddings
Skills
- List skills
- Create a skill
- Get a skill
- Delete a skill
Checked against Perplexity's own documentation on 2026-10-22
How Tray.ai makes this work
Perplexity plugs into the whole Tray.ai platform
Intelligent Integration
Integrate and automate across 10,100+ apps, databases, APIs, and services with visual workflows, error handling, and observability.
Learn more →Agent Builder
Build AI agents that read, write, and take action in Perplexity — with guardrails, audit, and human-in-the-loop.
Learn more →Agent Gateway for MCP
Expose Perplexity actions as governed MCP tools — observable, rate-limited, authenticated.
Learn more →Tray Helix
Build apps on Perplexity data with your AI assistant, then deploy, run, and govern them on Tray.ai.
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Frequently asked questions
What can a Tray.ai workflow do in Perplexity?
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The Perplexity API documents 14 actions across 5 resources (Agent responses, Search and decisions, Chat completions, Embeddings, Skills). For example: Create an agent response; Search the web; Create a chat completion. A workflow can make any documented call through the HTTP Connector.
How does Tray.ai authenticate with Perplexity?
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The Perplexity API uses a bearer token. You save it once as a Tray.ai authentication, and the HTTP Connector adds it to every request.
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