Perplexity has launched Teammates, a new class of personal agents designed to own long-running, ongoing work rather than answer one-off prompts. The company announced the feature in a blog post on November 4, 2026, describing Teammates as agents that coordinate Computer sessions, and other teammates, using a user's own tools and files.
According to Perplexity, a teammate can plan a project, adjust priorities as it goes, check its results along the way and return finished work for review. Teammates keep project goals, task history and shared files across runs, and apply feedback to future tasks. They can also monitor work proactively: Perplexity's examples include a sales teammate that investigates a lapsed customer and an operations teammate that chases missing items when a deadline is 72 hours away.
Teammates can be added to Slack channels, where colleagues can assign tasks or ask for updates, and they can hand work to one another. At launch they connect to plugins including Slack, GitHub and Gmail; for GitHub, users choose which repositories a teammate may access. They draw on Computer's existing projects, skills, memory and automations, and inherit its tool and project permissions.
On security, Perplexity says each teammate runs in its own environment with browser sessions isolated from other teammates, and that saved credentials are encrypted. Users can review completed work, take over the desktop or redirect a teammate at any point.
The feature is launching for Perplexity Max subscribers, starting on the web with iOS to follow; Free and Pro users are pointed to an upgrade. Perplexity says it will expand access and features in the coming weeks. For teams evaluating agent platforms, Teammates puts Perplexity in direct competition with persistent, Slack-connected agents from other vendors, with scoped repository access and per-agent isolation as its main controls.