Poly
AI file agent in AI tools
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.
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.
20 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 13
- criticize it
- 7
- approval share
- 65%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 13 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Agent acts on your files
“That's the power of the harness we built for the agent. It actually understands and can take action on your file system.”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files” “We have an embedded agent that can read, edit, organize, and take actions on your files.”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files” Searches across all your files
“having a file system that can search all your files to do these things seemed useful enough for us to build”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files” “The search part of this is cool”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Privacy risk for sensitive files
“a monthly subscription and the security risk wouldn't be worth it”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files” “that's an immediate no-go for all the important industries”
Comment from 23 Nov 2025 in “Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files” “I don't trust proprietary software with access to my whole filesystem like this.”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files” - Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files”
Overall poor website quality
“Terrible, terrible website. Loading experience?”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files” “But I am sorry, it is terrible.”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files”
What people said
21 of the 23 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“that's an immediate no-go for all the important industries”
“This website is so so good!”
“Terrible, terrible website. Loading experience?”
“The site allocates a large amount of VRAM on desktop, which takes forever to load.”
“One customer type that will absolutely love that are architecture studios.”
“Then this is what you should point out. In this case the file names in your promo visualization should NOT contain the search keyword.”
“That's the power of the harness we built for the agent. It actually understands and can take action on your file system.”
“an LLM wrapper in search of a problem”
“But I am sorry, it is terrible.”
“this site crashes my Safari (Sequoia) reliably, so I can't see the demo”
“the landing page visuals is too cluttered”
“your service, by nature, is reading an analyzing all of my files using a remote server.”
“Won't this only work when connected to the internet? So I can't use it on a flight.”
“We support web links, PDFs, documents (with annotations!).”
“The search part of this is cool”
“having a file system that can search all your files to do these things seemed useful enough for us to build”
“We have an embedded agent that can read, edit, organize, and take actions on your files.”
“there is absolutely zero chance I'm putting my files in your cloud”
“Supporting an enterprise air gapped solution of this clearly has huge value.”
“I don't trust proprietary software with access to my whole filesystem like this.”
“a monthly subscription and the security risk wouldn't be worth it”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.