# Agent API

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The Agent API is a multi-provider, interoperable API specification for building LLM applications. Access models from multiple providers with integrated real-time web search, tool configuration, reasoning control, and token budgets—all through one unified interface.
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:::card{title="OpenAI Compatibility" href="/guides/agent-api-openai-compatibility"}
Use your existing OpenAI SDKs with Perplexity's Agent API. Full compatibility with minimal code changes.
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:::card{title="Prompt Guide" href="/guides/agent-api-prompt-guide"}
How to write effective prompts for the Agent API.
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:::card{title="Perplexity Search API" href="/guides/agent-api-search-quickstart"}
Access real-time web search results with Perplexity's Search API. Get ranked results, domain filtering, multi-query search, and content extraction for developers.
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:::card{title="Fast Search" href="/guides/agent-api-search-fast-search"}
Use search\_type fast on the Search API for lower-latency, lower-cost web results.
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:::card{title="Best Practices" href="/guides/agent-api-search-best-practices"}
Learn best practices for optimizing search queries and implementing efficient async patterns with Perplexity's Search API.
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:::card{title="Perplexity Search SDK" href="/guides/agent-api-search-sdk-overview"}
An agents-first Python SDK that brings Perplexity's Search as Code approach to your applications: composable retrieval primitives that agents orchestrate in code.
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## Related pages

- [Admin & Management](./admin-management-index.md)
- [Agent API](./agent-api-2-index.md)
- [Analytics API](./analytics-api-index.md)
- [Authentication](./authentication-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Cookbook](./cookbook-2-index.md)
- [Embeddings API](./embeddings-api-2-index.md)
- [Embeddings API](./embeddings-api-index.md)
- [Getting Started](./getting-started-index.md)
- [More](./more-index.md)

# Agent Instructions

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