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title: "Perplexity Teammates: Agents Designed for Work"
description: "Perplexity is introducing Teammates, persistent work agents available on the web to Perplexity Max subscribers."
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published_at: "2026-11-06"
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# Perplexity Teammates: Agents Designed for Work

## Retrieval answer

Perplexity is introducing Teammates, persistent work agents available on the web to Perplexity Max subscribers. They can draw on Computer projects, skills, and memory, collaborate with other teammates, follow up with coworkers in Slack, and keep working through automations. The announcement describes a broader handoff model, but does not establish how reliably it works in real tasks.

## Summary
Perplexity is introducing Teammates, persistent work agents available on the web to Perplexity Max subscribers. They can draw on Computer projects, skills, and memory, collaborate with other teammates, follow up with coworkers in Slack, and keep working through automations. The announcement describes a broader handoff model, but does not establish how reliably it works in real tasks.

## What happened
Perplexity’s product page presents Teammates as personal agents for work ranging from advertising campaigns to coding projects. The feature is available on Perplexity Max, and the page invites users to create a teammate through the web experience. The source does not give a launch date, subscription price, rollout schedule, or a detailed account of which users have access beyond the Max availability statement.

Teammates start with capabilities already in Perplexity Computer: projects, skills, and memory carry over. Perplexity says they can use memory and context from previous work, and users can ask a teammate to take over a project or a recurring task. This frames the feature as continuity across work rather than a one-off prompt-and-response interaction. The page does not specify memory retention controls, how users inspect or edit remembered information, or whether every Computer capability is available to every teammate.

Each teammate has a dedicated, persistent thread in the user’s sidebar. Perplexity says that thread does not close, and lets users inspect what the teammate is doing, what it finished, and when. Users can hand off work in plain language, request status, or change plans. Teammates can also work with other teammates and follow up with coworkers in Slack. The public description does not explain the Slack permissions or integration setup required, nor does it describe how work is divided among agents.

The page emphasizes proactive operation through automations: teammates are designed to keep moving work forward rather than waiting for a new user message. An on-call engineer example illustrates the intended workflow. In the displayed scenario, a user asks the agent to monitor alerts, inspect logs and traces, identify a root cause, prepare a pull request and rollback plan, and escalate only when approval is needed or the cause cannot be isolated within 15 minutes. The example depicts an alert tied to a billing API deployment, a proposed fix, and a request for approval before shipping. It is product-page illustration, not evidence of a measured production outcome or a guarantee that the agent can safely perform those actions.

Perplexity says Teammates use the same security and privacy infrastructure as Computer and links to its explanation of agent runtimes. The supplied page does not detail the controls, limits, supported tools, or pricing beyond Max availability. It also says mobile apps are not described as currently available here; the source only presents the web product.

## What the archive adds
This is a new product event related to earlier coverage of Perplexity’s Computer capabilities. [Perplexity Computer desktop apps can now drive the user's own Chrome via a new extension](https://newruntime.com/posts/perplexity-computer-desktop-apps-can-now-drive-the-a54a68/) described local browser control; Teammates now add persistent, delegated work threads and proactive automations. The connection is continuity of the product surface, not evidence that the new agents use that extension.

## Trend signal
The announcement weakly supports [AI-native organizations move toward review and orchestration](https://newruntime.com/patterns/ai-native-orgs-move-to-review-and-orchestration/): its on-call example puts an agent on monitoring and draft-fix work while retaining a human approval gate. But this is a product illustration, not evidence that teams are adopting the operating model or measuring accepted outcomes, review time, or rollbacks.

## Why now
The product page positions Teammates as a way to hand off projects and recurring tasks, and highlights proactive automations. That makes the announcement relevant to the shift from asking an assistant for a response to assigning work that continues between interactions. The source does not explain why Perplexity is launching now or connect the timing to a specific customer need, release milestone, or market event.

## Why it matters
For teams, persistent threads and carried-over context could make a delegated agent easier to supervise than a sequence of disconnected prompts: the user has a place to inspect activity, see what was finished, request status, and revise a plan. Slack follow-up and collaboration among teammates also point toward work spanning individual users and existing team communication.

The consequential test is not whether an agent can be assigned a plausible job, but whether the team can bound its permissions, verify its work, and decide when a person must intervene. The on-call example shows a proposed approval boundary, but it does not establish how the system handles false diagnoses, unsafe changes, missed alerts, or ambiguous instructions. Builders considering this pattern should treat persistent activity as an operational responsibility: define what can run unattended, what requires approval, and what evidence a reviewer needs before accepting an outcome.

## Limits and uncertainty
The product page is a vendor description, not an independent evaluation. It gives no benchmark, customer case, error rate, uptime commitment, or verified result for the on-call scenario. The source does not specify which tools teammates can access, how credentials and permissions are administered, how automations are scheduled, or what happens when a task fails or runs beyond its intended scope. It also does not state the price of Max or whether access is universal among subscribers. The security claim is broad and refers to Computer’s infrastructure; the supplied material does not provide enough detail to assess safeguards for particular workflows.

## Skill to build now
Before delegating recurring work to any persistent agent, write a short task contract: the permitted data and tools, the expected deliverable, the conditions that require human approval, and the escalation deadline. For an on-call workflow, test first with read-only access and require a human to approve changes. This maps directly to the boundaries illustrated by Perplexity’s example without assuming the product enforces them.

## Reader takeaway
Teammates turn Perplexity’s work-agent pitch into persistent, proactive assignments for Max users, with context carryover, automations, and visible threads. The useful idea is continuous delegated work with a review point; the key unknown is whether its permissions, reliability, and escalation behavior are strong enough for real operational tasks.

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