Numbat Review: Agent Activity Monitor From Perplexity AI

Ever had an AI coding agent go rogue — read a file it shouldn’t, fire off an API call you didn’t approve, or quietly delete something important? Yeah, me too. That moment when you realize your Claude Code session silently touched /etc/passwd or your Codex agent issued a curl to an IP you’ve never seen before — you can’t prove it, you can’t stop it, and you definitely can’t go back and figure out what happened. At least, you couldn’t until last week. Perplexity AI just open-sourced numbat, and it changes the game. ...

July 30, 2026 · 7 min · GitHubDigger