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Summary
- Perplexity has added email integration to its computer-use agent tool, Computer
- CC'ing, forwarding, or sending an email to computer@perplexity.com turns that thread into a Computer session that gets executed
- The session can be tracked on web and mobile with the same audit trail as other in-app tasks, and the feature is now available to all users
- 기능명
- Computer in Email
- 실행 방식
- 이메일 스레드에 computer@perplexity.com 참조·전달·발송
- 확인 경로
- 웹·모바일 앱에서 일반 작업과 동일한 감사 기록으로 조회
- 공개 범위
- Computer 사용자 전체 대상, 2026년 8월 18일부터 제공
Perplexity has brought its agent tool "Computer" into email. Now, CCing or forwarding any email thread to computer@perplexity.com — or sending a new email directly to it — immediately hands that content over to Computer as a work session to execute. According to Perplexity's announcement, tasks started this way can be tracked on both web and mobile just like any other task run in the app, complete with the same audit trail — a log recording who requested what, when, and what steps the agent took. The feature has been rolled out to all Computer users as of the announcement.
Computer is Perplexity's computer-use product. Computer use refers to an AI's ability to view a screen the way a person does and directly operate programs by clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard. Until now, triggering this kind of operation required going into the Perplexity app or website and typing in an instruction. With this update, there's now an additional entry point: email. Email remains the starting point for a great deal of work. Instead of a person reading an incoming thread, deciding what to do, and taking the next action themselves, they can simply add the agent's address to that thread and hand it off to the agent to operate the web on their behalf. A similar move is Google's screen-operation feature currently being tested in Gemini Desktop, though that one remains in testing while Perplexity has opened its email integration directly to real users.
In practical terms, this feature lowers the barrier to entry since users don't need to learn a new screen or app. Recurring email-based tasks — meeting invites, quote requests, reservation confirmations — can now be handed off to the agent simply by adding an address to the thread. That said, since email itself is a channel vulnerable to phishing and misuse, the source material does not specify detailed policies on who can use this address and under what permissions.
