Numbat by Perplexity: Endpoint visibility into AI agent activity
numbat Endpoint visibility into AI agent activity, with local detection, optional pre-action blocking, and forensic reconstruction. numbat observes supported desktop, CLI, IDE, and gateway agents through local hooks and plugins, OTLP/HTTP logs, and on-disk session artifacts. Live and at-rest activity is normalized into one event model and evaluated by the same CEL rule engine. Detection runs locally; records can be written to stdout or a local file and optionally delivered over HTTP.
- ▪numbat Endpoint visibility into AI agent activity, with local detection, optional pre-action blocking, and forensic reconstruction. numbat observes supported desktop, CLI, IDE, and gateway agents through local hooks and plugins, OTLP/HTTP l
- ▪Live and at-rest activity is normalized into one event model and evaluated by the same CEL rule engine.
- ▪Detection runs locally; records can be written to stdout or a local file and optionally delivered over HTTP.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/perplexityai/numbat |
| Publication time | Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:00:26 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-12T02:15:42.474Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-12T02:15:42.474Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | w00aemZ6NAGX · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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numbat Endpoint visibility into AI agent activity, with local detection, optional pre-action blocking, and forensic reconstruction. numbat observes supported desktop, CLI, IDE, and gateway agents through local hooks and plugins, OTLP/HTTP logs, and on-disk session artifacts. Live and at-rest activity is normalized into one event model and evaluated by the same CEL rule engine. Detection runs locally; records can be written to stdout or a local file and optionally delivered over HTTP. The coverage matrix is authoritative for each host and surface. Blocking is off by default and limited to supported synchronous pre-action hooks; see the enforcement guide. Features Live monitoring through hooks, plugins, and OTLP/HTTP log exporters.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.