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Zed Perplexity Extension
This example extension adds the /perplexity
slash command to the Zed AI assistant.
Usage
Open the AI Assistant panel (cmd-r
or ctrl-r
) and enter:
/perplexity What's the weather in Boulder, CO tomorrow evening?
Development Setup
-
Install the Rust toolchain and clone the zed repo:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh mkdir -p ~/code cd ~/code git clone https://github.com/zed-industries/zed
-
Open Zed
-
Open Zed Extensions (
cmd-shift-x
/ctrl-shift-x
) -
Click "Install Dev Extension"
-
Navigate to the "extensions/perplexity" folder inside the zed git repo.
-
Ensure your
PERPLEXITY_API_KEY
environment variable is set (instructions below)env | grep PERPLEXITY_API_KEY
-
Quit and relaunch Zed
PERPLEXITY_API_KEY
This extension requires a Perplexity API key to be available via the PERPLEXITY_API_KEY
environment variable.
To onbtain a Perplexity.ai API token, login to your Perplexity.ai account and go Settings->API and under "API Keys" click "Generate". This will require you to have Perplexity Pro or to buy API credits. By default the extension uses llama-3.1-sonar-small-128k-online
, currently cheapest model available which is roughly half a penny per request + a penny per 50,000 tokens. So most requests will cost less than $0.01 USD.
Take your API key and add it to your environment by adding export PERPLEXITY_API_KEY="pplx-0123456789abcdef..."
to your ~/.zshrc
or ~/.bashrc
. Reload close and reopen your terminal session. Check with env |grep PERPLEXITY_API_KEY
.