Perplexity announced its new Teammates agents in a blog post dated 4 November. They build on Perplexity Computer, which launched in February. Computer breaks a user’s goal into tasks and runs them with subagents. Giving it ongoing work, however, has taken planning, the company said.

A Teammate keeps the role it is given until the user changes it. It applies the feedback it receives to later work and remembers the project’s goals, task history and shared files from one session to the next.

How the agent splits and checks work

Perplexity’s help page says the agent breaks a large goal into tasks and starts additional agents for them, each with its own computer. It checks the results before moving on to the next steps. It then returns finished work, such as a report or a pull request, to the user for review.

The agent monitors connected services and can start work when something new arrives in them. These services include Slack, GitHub and Linear. After opening a pull request, for example, it can reply to review comments. Agents in the same project share files and instructions and can message each other. Colleagues can assign work to the agent in a Slack channel.

Each agent runs on its own isolated machine with its own desktop and browser. The user can take over the desktop mid-task or point the agent in a new direction. Saved credentials are encrypted, and the agent cannot see them.

The agent uses the connectors the user has installed, with the same permissions granted to those connectors. Perplexity advises users to review the requested permissions when connecting a service. On GitHub, users should select only the repositories the agent needs, the company said.

The default model is Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, but users can change the model for each agent. Tech Insider points out that no independent tests of the agents’ quality exist yet. For now, the quality claims are therefore Perplexity’s own.

Availability and price

Teammates is a research preview, initially available on the web to individual Max subscribers. Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max accounts are not included by default. Users on an enterprise account can ask their organisation’s administrator for access. An iOS version is on the way, the blog said. Perplexity says the feature is still under development and its behaviour may change.

Max costs $200 a month, The Verge reported. The subscription includes usage credits every month. Parallel agents, large files or codebases and frequent automations use more of them.

The Verge compares Teammates with OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet. The Decoder reported that Dots prices start at $100 and Duet at $20. In the publication’s assessment, the cheaper options will likely hit their usage limits quickly.