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How Perplexity built the Projects filesystem as a Git forge for agents
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- Perplexity
- What
- explains how it built the filesystem behind Perplexity Projects as a Git forge for agents
What happened
This is how Perplexity built the filesystem behind Perplexity Projects as a Git forge for agents. Each agent works in its own sandbox and commits to a shared repository where people and other agents can build on its work across sessions. Read more
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The shared repository provides a concrete example of how work from separate agent sandboxes can remain available for people and other agents across sessions.
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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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