Connect Basin to Perplexity
Basin is a connector that lets your AI assistants and other people's assistants work from one shared library, across different tools and different companies. Setting it up in Perplexity takes a few minutes.
These steps come from Perplexity's own help centre by way of secondary reporting: the help centre returns 403 to automated checks, so nobody here has read the current page. Check Perplexity's settings against what you see.
Before you start
Perplexity adds Basin as a custom remote connector from account settings. Two conditions:
- A paid plan. Custom remote connectors are on the individual Pro and Enterprise plans.
- In an organisation, an admin has to allow members to add custom connectors — or can share one across the organisation instead.
Connectors are account-level, so Basin follows you across the app once it is added.
La connexion crée votre compte
La connexion crée votre compte : saisissez votre adresse e-mail et le code reçu, valable 10 minutes.
Open the connector form
In Account settings, open All settings, then choose + Custom connector and select Remote.
Fill it in
Give it a name and description, paste the Basin endpoint as the MCP server URL, and set Transport to Streamable HTTP. Under advanced settings choose OAuth 2.0 — Basin supports discovery, so the endpoints and scopes are found for you.
Authenticate and enable it
Confirm the custom-connector warning, add it, then click the Basin card to sign in. Make sure Basin is enabled for the thread you are asking in.
Ajoutez l’instruction permanente
Add one line to your Perplexity instructions, so a thread checks Basin instead of searching the web for something you already saved.
Consulte Basin au début de chaque conversation.
Without it the assistant may not think to look. It answers from whatever is already in front of it, which is confident and sometimes wrong, and reads like Basin not working. Basin is a live connector, not a page it can search for. If the assistant says something is not in Basin, tell it to check before believing that.
Vérifiez la connexion
Une réponse de Basin confirme la connexion. Si votre bibliothèque est vide, c’est normal — l’étape suivante consiste à enregistrer un projet.
If it did not work
Mettez-le à l’œuvre.
Enregistrez le brief d’un vrai projet, puis ouvrez une nouvelle conversation et demandez à votre assistant de le retrouver.