Perplexity built Projects' filesystem as a Git forge for agents, with greps beating semantic search
perplexity_ai · x · 2026-10-13
Perplexity explains how Projects works as a Git forge for agents: each agent works in its own sandbox and commits to a shared repository that humans and other agents can build on across sessions. Key details: Git provides atomic commits, authorship, and queryable history, with PR review replaced by a repository-contract check; repos live on S3-backed storage while agents run in ephemeral sandboxes so crashes lose only unsubmitted work; a CLI lock plus head-based accepts serialize concurrent submits, with stale changes replayed and resubmitted. Since each sandbox holds a real checkout, agents explore with grep and standard file tools instead of semantic search — scoring 0.867 retrieval / 0.627 answer accuracy on 150 financial-document questions vs 0.39 / 0.37 for semantic search.
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