The `if (error instanceof WebError) throw error` guard is dead code in the exa and perplexity providers: their mappers (mapExaResponse / mapPerplexityResponse) never throw a WebError — a wrong-shape body throws a TypeError, which the catch correctly translates to WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR. The guard was added for symmetry with the deepseek provider, whose mapper DOES throw a WebError in strict mode (no web_search_tool_result block), so it keeps the rethrow. The unreachable lines tripped the per-file 100% coverage gate.
@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-search-perplexity
A Perplexity-backed WebSearchProvider for the harness web capability seam (ctx.web). It calls Perplexity's OpenAI-compatible POST /chat/completions endpoint and maps the generated answer plus citations into the seam's normalized WebSearchResult.
This is an implementation package: it registers a provider into ctx.web, it does not own the key and it does not register a model-facing tool. Like @deepseek-ai/dsh-llm-deepseek, it is a function/namespace plugin (inject: ['web']). The OpenAI-compatible wire shape is a provider-private detail — it does not make this provider depend on ctx.llm.
Config
| Key | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
apiKey |
$PERPLEXITY_API_KEY |
Perplexity API key. Empty/absent → provider status() reports missing-credential. |
baseURL |
https://api.perplexity.ai |
Endpoint base; /chat/completions is appended. An unparseable value makes status() report misconfigured. |
model |
sonar |
Search model name. |
- id: web-search-perplexity
name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-web-search-perplexity'
config:
apiKey: !!js process.env.PERPLEXITY_API_KEY
Mapping
content ← choices[0].message.content (the generated answer). sources[] prefers the structured search_results[] (url, title, snippet, publishedAt ← date), falling back to the URL-only citations[] array only when search_results is absent — those sources carry just a url, which is why title/snippet/publishedAt are optional on the seam. Provider failures surface as WebError WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR; an aborted request surfaces as WEB_ABORTED. Perplexity has no result-count control, so maxResults is enforced by the seam (truncating sources[] and setting truncated).