The Researcher: Adding Perplexity for Deep Search
On Day 3 of our journey building the ultimate AI Lab on a Raspberry Pi, we’re giving our OpenClaw agent a serious upgrade: Deep Search capabilities. While standard LLMs are great at reasoning, they often hallucinate facts or rely on outdated training data. To build a true “Researcher” agent, we need real-time, cited, and accurate information from the web. Enter Perplexity AI. Why Perplexity? Perplexity isn’t just a search wrapper; it’s an answer engine. Unlike a standard Google Search API which returns a list of links, Perplexity’s API (specifically the sonar models) returns synthesized answers with citations. This is perfect for an autonomous agent because it reduces the cognitive load of parsing raw HTML and synthesizing multiple sources—the API does the heavy lifting. ...