Computer is personal to you and your organization.

How to Build and Share Personalized AI Skills with Computer (Perplexity Enterprise)

TL;DR

• Computer is Perplexity’s new enterprise feature that gives you and your organization a fully private, customizable AI workspace that inherits your existing enterprise settings.
• You can immediately start building custom skills, connecting to hundreds of apps and tools, or bringing your own MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers.
• All data stays under your control with your organization’s retention, audit logs, and permissions—Perplexity never trains on your data.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have:

• A Perplexity Enterprise account (individual Perplexity Pro accounts do not yet have access to Computer)
• Admin or team-member access to your organization’s Perplexity workspace
• Familiarity with your company’s existing data governance policies (Computer automatically inherits these)
• Optional but recommended: API keys or OAuth credentials for the tools/apps you want to connect

Step 1: Access Computer in Your Enterprise Workspace

1. Log in to perplexity.ai with your enterprise credentials.
2. From the left sidebar, locate and click Computer (it appears alongside Search, Pages, and other workspace tools).
3. You will land on your personal Computer home. The interface looks like a blank canvas with three main tabs: Skills, Connections, and Settings.

Visual tip: The top banner shows your organization name and a green “Enterprise” badge confirming that data-retention and audit-log policies are already applied.

Step 2: Create Your First Custom Skill

Skills are reusable prompts, tools, or workflows that Computer can execute on command.

1. Click the Skills tab → New Skill.
2. Give it a clear name, for example “Weekly Competitor Summary”.
3. In the editor, write a system prompt or chain of instructions. Example:

You are a competitive intelligence analyst.
1. Search the web for recent news about {competitor}.
2. Extract key product launches, funding rounds, and leadership changes.
3. Format output as a concise bulleted report with sources.
4. Save the report to our internal Notion workspace.

4. Click Test Skill to run it immediately with sample variables.
5. Once satisfied, click Publish → choose visibility:
   • Personal (only you)
   • Team (your department)
   • Organization (entire company)

Pro move: Use variables in curly braces {variable} so the skill becomes reusable across the team.

Step 3: Connect Apps and Tools

Computer can talk to hundreds of business tools natively or via MCP.

1. Switch to the Connections tab.

2. Click Browse Catalog — you will see pre-built connectors for:

   • Slack
   • Notion
   • Google Drive / Gmail
   • Salesforce
   • GitHub
   • Linear
   • Zendesk
   • and many more

3. Click any connector → Connect and complete the OAuth flow.

4. After connecting, return to Skills and reference the tool. Example addition to a skill prompt:

After creating the report, post a summary to #competitive-intel in Slack and create a task in Linear with label "research".

5. Save and test. The skill will now execute end-to-end without leaving your private environment.

Step 4: Bring Your Own MCP (Advanced)

If your team has internal tools or private APIs, you can expose them via the Model Context Protocol.

1. In Connections → Bring your own MCP.
2. Provide the MCP server URL (must be accessible from Perplexity’s enterprise network).
3. Add authentication details (API key, OAuth, or mTLS).
4. Once registered, the MCP appears as a tool named exactly as you defined it.
5. Reference it in skills like any other connector.

Note: Exact MCP server setup instructions are in the enterprise admin console. Check official docs for your specific network requirements.

Step 5: Share Skills Across Your Organization

1. Open any published skill.
2. Click the Share button.
3. Choose:
   • Link (for specific teammates)
   • Team folder
   • Organization library
4. Add a short description and example use cases so others can discover it easily.
5. Skills in the organization library appear automatically in every team member’s Computer sidebar under Shared Skills.

Tips and Best Practices

• Start small: Build 2–3 high-frequency skills (meeting summarizer, expense explainer, customer lookup) before scaling.
• Use clear naming: Prefix skills with department codes (sales-, eng-, legal-) so the library stays organized.
• Version control: Every skill has a history tab. Revert to previous versions if a prompt change breaks downstream tools.
• Audit everything: Because Computer inherits enterprise settings, every skill execution, connection call, and data access is logged in your existing audit system.
• Combine skills: You can chain skills. Example: “Run sales-brief then feed output into marketing-campaign-generator”.
• Performance: Skills that use many tool calls run faster when you limit parallel connections to 3–4 per workflow.

Common Issues

Why am I getting “Skill not found” error?
Make sure you published the skill and that you (or the person trying to use it) have the correct visibility level. Refresh the sidebar.

Connection failed with OAuth error
Double-check that the app you’re connecting has the correct scopes enabled and that your enterprise admin has not restricted that third-party app.

Skill runs but data is missing from Slack/Notion
Verify that the connected account has write permissions in the target workspace. Test the connector independently from the Connections page.

MCP server times out
Ensure your internal MCP endpoint is reachable from Perplexity’s IP ranges (listed in enterprise network settings) and that response time is under 15 seconds.

Next Steps

After publishing your first 3–5 skills:

• Explore the Skill Marketplace (rolling out to enterprise admins) to import ready-made templates from other organizations in your industry.
• Set up Skill Suggestions so Computer proactively recommends relevant skills based on your recent queries.
• Train your team with a 30-minute “Computer Skills Lunch & Learn” using the shared library.
• Monitor usage analytics in the enterprise admin panel to see which skills deliver the most value and iterate.

Computer turns Perplexity from a search engine into a personal and organizational AI operating system. The more skills and connections you build today, the more productive your entire team becomes tomorrow.

Sources

• Perplexity AI Official Announcement
• Perplexity Enterprise documentation (access via your workspace admin console)