# Poly

13 Hacker News commenters recommended Poly and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** An embedded AI agent that searches, reads, edits and organizes your files, which people find useful. Main caveat: it reads files on a remote server, which privacy-minded users reject for sensitive data.

## Why people recommend it

- Agent acts on your files (2 comments): "That's the power of the harness we built for the agent. It actually understands and can take action on your file system." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46001171)) "We have an embedded agent that can read, edit, organize, and take actions on your files." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996167))
- Searches across all your files (2 comments): "having a file system that can search all your files to do these things seemed useful enough for us to build" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996210)) "The search part of this is cool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996513))

## What people warn about

- Privacy risk for sensitive files (4 comments): "a monthly subscription and the security risk wouldn't be worth it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45995709)) "that's an immediate no-go for all the important industries" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46026187)) "I don't trust proprietary software with access to my whole filesystem like this." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45995749))
- Overall poor website quality (2 comments): "Terrible, terrible website. Loading experience?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46003134)) "But I am sorry, it is terrible." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46000973))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Poly", https://hackerapproved.com/p/poly/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).