New Delhi, July 29 -- Perplexity now works more like a personal helper than a chatbot. The company has added support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), a framework that lets AI tools connect with system level apps and services on your device.

This change allows Perplexity to do more than respond to questions. It can check your Apple Calendar, add reminders, create notes, or even look up files from your Google Drive. Instead of jumping between tabs or digging through menus, you can now ask Perplexity to handle small but important tasks and it will respond inside the chat window, just like a human assistant would.

Before diving further, let's look at what MCP actually is.

MCP short form for Model Context Protocol is a system d...