What is Comet Assistant?
Assistant is a Perplexity service that runs alongside your main browser window in a panel, giving you quick access to asking questions and executing tasks without interrupting your web flow.
Why is the Assistant valuable?
Instant help: Assistant is always available — just open it when you want answers, summaries, or actions taken on the website.
Multitask-friendly: You can freely browse other pages while Assistant is doing the work. And run as many errands in parallel as you want.
Stay focused: No need to switch tabs or interrupt your workflow; keep your research or writing on one side and your assistant’s help on the other.
Context-aware: The Assistant can pull in the content from the tab you’re currently viewing, or any tab you mention with @. This lets you ask detailed or nuanced questions about it, get summaries, extract action items, and more.
Example queries you can use with the Assistant
“Summarize this web page’s main points”
“What are the next steps described here?”
“Who is mentioned in this article?”
“Draft an email reply based on the content of this tab”
“Translate this section to French”
“Extract any dates and locations found on this page”
“Summarize my last five tabs”
How does the Assistant use context extraction?
It pulls in the visible text, headlines, and website metadata from your open page every time you submit a request.