Perplexity has open-sourced Bumblebee, an internal security tool designed to protect developer systems by scanning software dependencies (like npm, PyPI, and Go modules) without executing any code.
Perplexity has released Bumblebee, an internal security tool used to safeguard the systems supporting products like Comet and Computer. Bumblebee functions as a read-only inventory collector for macOS and Linux developer endpoints. Its key feature is scanning various sources—including npm, PyPI, Go modules, MCP configs, editor extensions, and browser extensions—in a read-only manner, ensuring that no package managers are invoked or any code is run during the scanning process.