Perplexity Projects: every Project is a Git repo — a forge built for agents
From the AI digest for 2026-10-12
What happened: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas (~8:09 PM ET): "Every Perplexity Project is a Git repo. We built a Git forge for agents, without the GitHub bloat, since no human has to approve anything. Each agent gets its own short-lived [credentials]" — plus an RT of the filesystem build-out write-up.
What's genuinely new: A development of the agent-infrastructure layer: the substrate now includes version control purpose-built for machine actors — short-lived credentials per agent, human-approval explicitly out of the loop. It sits directly across the record's agent-incident threads (Hugging Face breach, DseWiki, Gemini test breach): the industry response to those incidents is now "give each agent a forge and scoped creds," not "revoke tooling." The same window supplied the demand datapoint: a one-person company spending ~$1M/year on Perplexity (Molly O'Shea interview).
Watch: The credential model's details (rotation, scoping, audit trail — the exact controls the incident threads lacked); adoption outside Perplexity's own surface; whether "no human approval" draws incident-adjacent coverage.