Pigeon, a signed Pass for what a sub-agent may do
Pigeon Your agent spawned a sub-agent and handed it the same API key. That sub-agent can now deploy to production, read the payments database, and merge to main. You hand the child a Pigeon Pass: a narrowed, signed credential for what it may do, not a copy of everything you can do.
- ▪Pigeon Your agent spawned a sub-agent and handed it the same API key.
- ▪That sub-agent can now deploy to production, read the payments database, and merge to main.
- ▪You hand the child a Pigeon Pass: a narrowed, signed credential for what it may do, not a copy of everything you can do.
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/pigeonlabsHQ/pigeon |
| Publication time | Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:47:19 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-06T11:34:56.476Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-06T11:34:56.476Z |
| 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 | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| 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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Pigeon Your agent spawned a sub-agent and handed it the same API key. That sub-agent can now deploy to production, read the payments database, and merge to main. Pigeon stops that. You hand the child a Pigeon Pass: a narrowed, signed credential for what it may do, not a copy of everything you can do. Install Python 3.12 or newer. git clone https://github.com/pigeonlabsHQ/pigeon.git cd pigeon pip install . The whole idea, in 20 lines from pigeon import grant, verify authority = grant( subject="agent:deployer", capabilities=["deploy"], resources=["environment:staging"], ) allowed = verify(authority, action="deploy", resource="environment:staging") assert allowed.allowed denied = verify(authority, action="deploy", resource="environment:production") assert not denied.allowed assert…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.