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Perplexed jumps @anthropic-ai/sdk 0.92 → 0.115 without a single code change, picks up Obsidian's 0.4 lint ruleset, and development catches up to the 0.3.0 release that had run ahead of it.
Michael StatonPerplexity streaming stopped working when Perplexity's API began enforcing CORS headers that block requests originating from app://obsidian.md. Both streaming call sites — the modal query flow and the directory-template batch runner — were using activeWindow.fetch, which runs in Electron's Chromium renderer and is fully CORS-constrained. Both are now replaced with Node.js https.request, which routes through the OS network stack and is never subject to CORS enforcement.
Michael StatonPerplexed now ships templates for profiling open specs (with five-way authority typing and three-tier adoption) and named market categories (with explicit financial-stage tiers for incumbents, challengers, and innovators). The third shipped thing was a max_tokens override we built after diagnosing why the first real spec profile stopped halfway through with no warning at all. The fourth was a rendering-discipline upgrade — strengthened mermaid rules plus new LaTeX rules — after diagnosing that the vault's concept-profile template had drifted from the bundled source and was generating diagrams with no rendering rules in scope at all.
Michael StatonA fifth shipped directory template aimed at analyst-grade market maps (Known Category and Thesis-Driven flavors) — the kind of document a partner pays a $150K analyst three days to produce.
Michael StatonThe per-chunk idle-timeout discipline the legacy modal flow has used for two iterations now governs the directory-template flow too. A healthy slow stream completes naturally; a silently-stalled one fails in seconds instead of minutes.
Michael StatonThe Gemini provider shipped yesterday as TypeScript that compiled. Today it became TypeScript that runs cleanly inside Obsidian: CORS-blocked fetch swapped for Obsidian's requestUrl (with bonus page-title + canonical-URL parsing), API-key auth moved from query string to header, default model switched to `gemini-flash-latest` so the free tier doesn't wall the first request, the modal got real CSS, the template seeder stopped crashing on its own previously-written files, network drops mid-stream now surface as plain-English notices instead of stack traces, three system-prompt textareas grew from 200px-wide cramped slots to full-width 3-line rows, and a long-standing `addClass` token bug that was silently breaking eight settings sections finally got cleared.
Shared guidance for the four Obsidian profile templates (mermaid discipline, citation enforcement, image-placement, research-framing) used to be duplicated across templates or hardcoded in TypeScript; today it moved into vault-visible `partials/` and `preambles/` folders that templates pull in by `{{include: name}}` and that the runtime auto-attaches to every Perplexity request. While checking the UI shipped, we discovered the Perplexed settings tab only ever rendered its first section — Perplexity — because a stray `activeDocument.createEl('textarea')` was throwing in this Obsidian version and aborting `display()` before Claude, Perplexica/Vane, LM Studio, and eight other sections could mount. One-line fix: switch eight call sites to `containerEl.createEl`.
Perplexed now ships a fourth AI provider: Gemini, with Google Search grounding. Gemini's `groundingSupports[]` carries per-segment attribution (text span → source URL) that survives intact, where Claude's `web_search_20260209` dynamic-filter sandbox drops it on the floor. Same modal UX as Ask Claude, same Citations footer shape so cite-wide hex substitution stays provider-agnostic. Two Gemini-specific quirks surfaced when we dissected a real response with curl: chunk URLs are short-lived `vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com` redirects that rot in ~30 days (the plugin resolves them to durable source URLs before writing), and the spec's `searchEntryPoint.renderedContent` is 5KB of inline-styled HTML that Obsidian's Markdown renderer can't display (replaced with a Markdown list of the queries, each linked to google.com/search).
Brings the plugin to clean against ObsidianReviewBot's recommended eslint config: applies all 73 sentence-case rewrites the bot demanded (brand names lowercased mid-string — to be restored after marketplace acceptance), refactors four streaming fetch() call sites to activeWindow.fetch so the no-restricted-globals rule is satisfied without a disable directive, drops async on a callback and on listTemplates that had no await expression, and drops six unused catch bindings to clear the optional warnings. Both the local eslint config and the bot-mirror recommended config now exit 0; tsc passes; production esbuild passes.
Ships the cf/cft codefence DSL, four directory templates (concept, vocabulary, source, toolkit), streaming + cleanup pipeline with image marker placement and fallback, anti-incumbent editorial stance, cite-wide-compatible sources footer, frontmatter run-stamps, Google Books URL harvesting for book sources, and a first-run seeder that drops shipped templates plus a README into the user's vault on plugin load.
Michael StatonWe are maintained. Updated all packages, solved for dependabot flags, and fixed a streaming-citations bug.
Michael StatonThe three 'Ask <provider>' modals — Ask Perplexity, Ask Claude, and Ask Perplexica — all have beautiful, wide, and consistent Modal UIs now.
Michael StatonClaude is now a first-class research provider in Perplexed — wired via the Anthropic SDK with server-side web_search, adaptive thinking, streaming, an Ask Claude command, and a citations pipeline that handles both per-claim text-block citations and bare web_search_tool_result fallbacks.
Michael StatonPerplexed's identity moment landed July 19, 2025: the first time an API call to Perplexity ran through the plugin's modal and streamed responses back into the note. Not perfect, but real. Logged retrospectively from 2026 — the convention came after the fact.
Michael Staton