37 rules available in the Perplexity directory
Perplexity Space rules for researching AI ethics, governance frameworks, responsible AI practices, and regulatory developments in artificial intelligence.
Perplexity Space configuration for researching climate science, energy policy, sustainability metrics, and environmental regulations with scientific rigor.
Perplexity Space rules for researching talent markets, compensation benchmarks, hiring trends, and building data-backed recruitment strategies.
Perplexity Space configuration for cybersecurity threat intelligence research, vulnerability tracking, incident analysis, and security posture assessment.
Rules for controlling Perplexity's output format, citation style, depth of analysis, and response structure for professional research workflows.
Perplexity Space configuration for tracking and researching regulatory compliance requirements across industries and jurisdictions.
Perplexity Space rules for evaluating open source projects on health, security, community, and suitability for production use.
Perplexity Space configuration for researching successful Product Hunt launches, analyzing trends, and preparing launch strategies with data-backed recommendations.
Perplexity Space instructions for conducting M&A due diligence research, covering financial analysis, market positioning, risk assessment, and integration considerations.
Perplexity Space instructions for a technical architecture review assistant that evaluates system designs, identifies risks, and suggests improvements.
Comprehensive citation and source quality rules with tier-based source evaluation, conflict resolution, and anti-fabrication safeguards.
Production-grade API integration rules covering rate limiting, timeouts, error handling, caching, fallback chains, and cost monitoring for Perplexity applications.
Financial analysis Space rules enforcing strict data source requirements, standardized metrics, and risk disclosure for investment research.
Advanced search operator rules for Perplexity including site filtering, filetype search, recency constraints, and thread-based iterative research strategies.
Content writing Space rules that enforce research-backed writing with source quality hierarchy, fact-checking requirements, and E-E-A-T optimization.
Rules for getting consistent structured output from Perplexity using few-shot prompting techniques, with format specification and validation guidelines.
Competitive intelligence framework for Perplexity Spaces that structures company analysis into business model, market position, growth signals, and risk assessment.
Comprehensive API configuration rules covering search depth, domain filtering, recency, model selection, and hallucination prevention for Perplexity Sonar models.
Academic-grade research rules restricting Perplexity to scholarly sources with APA citations, methodology analysis, and evidence quality ratings.
Space instructions optimized for technical documentation queries with version checking, deprecation alerts, and structured debugging methodology.
Custom Space instructions that transform Perplexity into a rigorous research analyst with multi-source verification, source quality hierarchy, and confidence ratings.
The base system prompt extracted from Perplexity's Spaces feature, showing how Perplexity instructs its AI to handle search results, citations, and formatting.
The official system prompt for Perplexity's deep-research preset, designed for comprehensive multi-source analysis with GPT-5.2 and up to 10 reasoning steps.
The official system prompt for Perplexity's pro-search Agent API preset, providing balanced research with GPT-5.1 and up to 3 tool calls.