How Perplexity Projects uses Git repositories as shared workspaces for agents

What happened

Every Perplexity Project is a Git repo, built as a Git forge for agents without what Srinivas calls GitHub bloat because no human has to approve anything. Each agent gets its own short-lived sandbox and commits to a shared repo on S3, with fewer than 2% of submissions colliding. Agents search with plain `ls` and `grep`, which Srinivas reports beats semantic search 63% vs 37% on answer accuracy for financial document analysis.

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The story so far

Perplexity said it built the filesystem behind Perplexity Projects as a Git forge for agents, with each agent working in its own sandbox and committing to a shared repository so people and other agents can build on its work across sessions. Aravind Srinivas said every Perplexity Project is a Git repository, with agents using short-lived sandboxes and committing to a shared repository on S3 without requiring human approval. He reported that fewer than 2% of submissions collide. Srinivas also said agents search using plain `ls` and `grep`, and reported answer accuracy of 63% for that approach versus 37% for semantic search in financial document analysis.

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