Perplexity says its Teammates agents are now available in its Mac app for Max subscribers, according to a November 13 report that embeds the company's announcement. The agents were introduced on the web earlier in November.

The big change

  • Teammates are intended to take responsibility for continuing work rather than answer only one isolated prompt. A user defines a role, connects relevant tools and can review or redirect the work as it develops.
  • The new announcement extends access to the Mac app for Max subscribers. The earlier research-preview instructions describe web setup; they do not establish that every other subscription or platform has access.
  • A separate fully local Computer mode also exists on supported Macs. The available Mac announcement does not establish that Teammates workloads themselves run entirely on-device, so the two claims should not be conflated.

From a request to ongoing work

Perplexity describes a teammate as an agent that plans tasks around an assigned responsibility and can coordinate other agents. Its original account says it can draw on Computer projects, files, skills and memory, and return work for review. These are company descriptions, not independently measured success rates.

The web setup guide gives a recurring Slack example: summarize a chosen channel each weekday and send the result to the user's chat. The user connects the account and specifies the source, schedule and destination.

Permissions and cost

Perplexity's guide tells users to review connection permissions and restrict GitHub access to needed repositories. It says teammates inherit plugin and project permissions, have separate browser sessions and cannot view saved credentials. These are company claims, not an independent security audit.

The initial guide describes a research preview for individual Max subscribers, with Enterprise plans not included by default. It says teammates use the subscription's monthly credit allocation, and that parallel agents, large files or frequent automation can use more. A recurring assignment therefore needs monitoring of both its permissions and its usage, not just its first answer.

Mac access is not proof of local execution

In a separate November 6 update, Perplexity described fully local Computer on supported Apple-silicon Macs, with permission to work across local files and apps. It listed app version and memory recommendations for that mode. The update separately described Teammates as available on the web at that time.

The newer Mac availability report does not specify whether a Teammates task uses local, cloud or hybrid processing. Users should check the actual controls and terms for their task rather than infer a data location from the app they opened. BIG CHANGE did not test the feature or verify its handling of a connected account.