# Perplexity — Building shared workspaces for people and agents

- Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
- Announced: 2026-10-12
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/building-shared-workspaces-for-people-and-agents
- Record: https://forck.live/items/26942-building-shared-workspaces-for-people-and-agents
- Subject: Perplexity

Perplexity has built the shared workspace behind its recently launched Projects on a Git repository, so people and agents can work together on long-running tasks in Perplexity Computer. The company says multiplayer collaboration spanning months needs persistence, concurrency and traceability, the same requirements that drove software engineers to Git forges decades ago. Each project is backed by a Git repository served by five components: a CLI, a control plane, a Git service, AWS S3-backed storage and downstream processing. Agents run in isolated sandboxes on SPACE, Perplexity's in-house sandbox platform, and each sandbox holds a small CLI that materializes the repository and submits changes as commits. The CLI materializes files lazily, so large and binary files stored through Git Large File Storage arrive as pointer files and agents read parsed text before downloading source documents. Perplexity tested a FUSE-backed virtual filesystem but found it roughly 400 times slower on filesystem-heavy workloads than local files, since every request needs a network roundtrip.

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