Show HN: Porcupine, a terminal AI agent built for safe autonomy
The open-source terminal AI agent built for safe autonomy. It reasons, routes capabilities, uses tools, delegates work, verifies the result, and keeps risky action inside the permission boundary you control. Get started · Why Porcupine · Capabilities · Evaluation · Safety · Documentation Built on top of Pi (MIT).
- ▪The open-source terminal AI agent built for safe autonomy.
- ▪It reasons, routes capabilities, uses tools, delegates work, verifies the result, and keeps risky action inside the permission boundary you control.
- ▪Get started · Why Porcupine · Capabilities · Evaluation · Safety · Documentation Built on top of Pi (MIT).
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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/Abd0r/porcupineai |
| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:52:27 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-11T13:05:47.647Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-11T13:05:47.647Z |
| 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 | oBUnQ4eLWnKf · 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.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
The open-source terminal AI agent built for safe autonomy. Give Porcupine a goal. It reasons, routes capabilities, uses tools, delegates work, verifies the result, and keeps risky action inside the permission boundary you control. Get started · Why Porcupine · Capabilities · Evaluation · Safety · Documentation Built on top of Pi (MIT). Why Porcupine Porcupine does not treat autonomy as all-or-nothing. You choose how much it may do before asking. Porcupine Safe autonomy Ask, Normal, and Auto modes let you choose the permission boundary. Normal asks on flagged actions; Auto applies a fail-closed safety gate. Hardline destructive actions remain blocked.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.