Perplexity Comet (assistant/agent)

Perplexity · agentic-browsing

name
Perplexity Comet (assistant/agent)
operator
Perplexity
purpose
agentic-browsing
ua_substring
robots_token
(none — agentic browser; no published robots.txt token)
respects_robots
no
verify
no stable user-agent and no verifiable identity layer; Comet runs inside the user's browser session and presents like ordinary Chromium traffic. Distinct from PerplexityBot/Perplexity-User (which are cloud bots verifiable by IP range + perplexity.ai in the UA).
notes
Perplexity's Comet is a Chromium-based browser fork that runs locally and performs multi-tab agentic actions inside the user's session. Unlike Perplexity's cloud crawlers, it has no verifiable identity layer at the network level — included here per the agentic-browser taxonomy, verifiable by IP/signature only.
canonical_name
Comet
user_agent_token
— no-stable-ua
ua_full
— no-stable-ua ↗ https://www.perplexity.ai/comet
bot_type
agentic-browser
bot_type_extension
opt_out_mechanism
— not-applicable
published_ip_range_url
— not-applicable
asn
— not-applicable
reverse_dns_suffix
— not-applicable
supports_web_bot_auth
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://www.perplexity.ai/comet
signature_agent_domain
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://www.perplexity.ai/comet
jwks_url
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://www.perplexity.ai/comet
verification_methods
IP-signature
crawl_traffic_share
— not-applicable
targeted_content_type
HTML, text (interactive browsing)
documentation_url
https://www.perplexity.ai/comet
first_seen_date
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://www.perplexity.ai/comet
last_verified_date
2026-06-15
block_vs_allow_recommendation
conditional — acts inside a real user's browser session with no verifiable identity layer; it is not a bulk crawler and cannot be reliably blocked by robots.txt or UA. Manage via session-level / bot-management controls if agent actions are a concern.
citation_referral_value
medium (acts on a user's behalf in-browser; can surface and act on your page for that user)
cloudflare_verified_category
— verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory
status
active
triples
["Comet","operated_by","Perplexity"] ["Comet","has_bot_type","agentic-browser"] ["Comet","verified_via","IP-signature"]
attribute_sources
{"claims":["operator","bot_type","documentation_url"],"source":"https://www.perplexity.ai/comet","last_verified":"2026-06-15"}

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