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pi-coding-agent
A new Emacs mode for AI-assisted coding (Claude Code style), with native Emacs buffers instead of a flickering terminal. Built on top of pi, a no-bs open source Claude Code alternative. It supports Claude, GPT, Gemini, Ollama. I've been using it daily for weeks. Demo video that says more than $NUMBER words: https://danielnouri.org/media/pi-coding-agent-demo.mp4 The key decision here is that we have two separate windows: chat history is a markdown-mode buffer, with beautiful rendering, unlimted scrollback, selective tool expansion where it matters, etc. The input window stays visible while you paste, edit, compose. And doesn't stumble over newlines either. ;-) Other useful things: - Streaming output (watch commands run live) - Syntax-highlighted code blocks and diffs - Collapsible tool output with TAB - Magit-style transient menu (C-c C-p) - Branch/resume sessions, export to HTML GitHub: https://github.com/dnouri/pi-coding-agent It's on MELPA as: pi-coding-agent pi's homepage: https://shittycodingagent.ai/
agentic-color-grader
Hey guys, created a color grading harness for the pi coding agent to color correct S-Log3 footage. This gives claude access to both images (watching the frame) and also to meters like rgb gamma, color balance, curves, exposure contrast. Tried it on some footage from my a7iv and worked pretty well. Still early stages but would love thoughts and suggestions. Sample Corrections: sample 1: https://imgur.com/a/un0OkQc sample 2: https://imgur.com/a/zEfVsWt cheers
hf-agents
We've been building out CLI extensions for the Hugging Face hub, and hf-agents is a fun one to share. It uses llmfit under the hood to profile your hardware and automatically select the best-fit model and quantization — no manual GGUF hunting. It then launches a Pi Agent on top of it. One command, local, fully open. If you've been using Claude Code or Codex CLI and want something that runs entirely on your own hardware/models, this is a nice lightweight alternative to try. Happy to answer questions — and curious what hardware setups people are running this on.
Show HN: Rakenne – Markdown-defined agentic workflows for structured documents
Hi! I’m the creator of Rakenne and I built it because I noticed a recurring problem with LLMs in professional settings: chat-based document creation is unpredictable and hard to scale for domain experts. Experts know the process of building a document (the questions to ask, the order of operations, the edge cases), but translating that into a long system prompt often leads to hallucinations or missed steps. What is Rakenne? Rakenne is a multi-tenant SaaS that lets domain experts define "Guided Workflows" in Markdown. An LLM agent then runs these workflows server-side, conducting a structured dialogue with the user to produce a final, high-fidelity document. The Tech Stack: * Agentic Core: Built on the pi coding agent (https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono) using RPC mode. This allows the agent to maintain state and follow complex logic branches defined in the Markdown files. * Frontend: Built with Lit web components. I wanted something incredibly lightweight and framework-agnostic so the document "interviews" feel snappy and can eventually be embedded as widgets. * Multi-tenancy: Designed to isolate agent environments server-side, ensuring that custom expert logic doesn't leak between tenants. Why this approach? Instead of "Chat with a PDF," it’s "The Logic of an Expert." If you’re a lawyer or a compliance officer, you don’t want a creative partner; you want a system that follows your proven methodology. By using Markdown, we make the "expert logic" version-controllable and easy for non-devs to edit. I’d love your feedback on: 1. The Agentic UX: Does the "interview" flow feel natural, or is it too rigid? 2. Markdown as Logic: Is Markdown the right "DSL" for this, or should we move toward something like YAML or a custom schema? 3. Latency: We're using RPC for the agent-browser communication—is the response time acceptable for your use case? Thanks! I'll be around to answer any technical questions.
Show HN: Talking to My Terminal with Local Speech-to-Text and Pi Coding Agent
Show HN: Talking to My Terminal with Local Speech-to-Text and Pi Coding Agent
@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent - npmx
Coding agent CLI with read, bash, edit, write tools and session management
@mariozechner/pi-coding-agent - Pi
Full-featured coding agent CLI with tools, sessions, and extensibility
@spences10/pi-themes · Packages · Pi
Polished theme pack for Pi that improves contrast, mood, and visual hierarchy in the terminal UI · Install @spences10/pi-themes from npm and Pi will load the resources declared by the package manifest
@spences10/pi-themes · Packages · Pi
Polished theme pack for Pi that improves contrast, mood, and visual hierarchy in the terminal UI · Install @spences10/pi-themes from npm and Pi will load the resources declared by the package manifest
A Sovereign Coding Agent on macOS — PI in an Apple Container; Zero npm on the Host
Run the pi coding agent in a disposable Apple container, with local MLX inference on Apple Silicon and no npm or Node on the host. Sovereign and auditable.
Agent engineering: Pi - Roman Imankulov
What happens when your coding agent gives you seven tools and tells you to build the rest.
Articles - Awesome Pi Coding Agent
Blog posts, discussions, and community coverage from around the web · A new Emacs mode for AI-assisted coding (Claude Code style), with native Emacs buffers instead of a flickering terminal. Built on top of pi, a no-bs open source Claude Code alternative. It supports Claude, GPT, Gemini, Ollama.
AUR (en) - pi-coding-agent - Arch Linux
1 2 Next › Last » · There IS a way of having the npm dependencies inside the package, all tracked by pacman
blackbelt-technology/pi-agent-dashboard
Web dashboard for monitoring and interacting with pi agent sessions · Install @blackbelt-technology/pi-agent-dashboard from npm and Pi will load the resources declared by the package manifest
Extensions - Awesome Pi Coding Agent
Multi-agent workflow suite for Pi with Idle, Standard, Plan, Mission, approval gates, reviewer/validator roles, sub-agents, model routing, web search/fetch, browser checks, diagrams, compaction, presets, settings, themes, widgets, and Repo Lock.
How To Install Pi Coding Agent and Set Up Your First Project
Install Pi Coding Agent from the official npm package, authenticate one provider, write a practical AGENTS.md file, run a read-only smoke test, and make a controlled first edit. This intermediate tutorial shows the setup order that keeps package choice, credentials, project rules, settings, ...
Miscellaneous - Awesome Pi Coding Agent
CLIs, dashboards, providers, templates, configurations, and other Pi-related projects · Graphs that teach > graphs that impress. Turn any code into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more
Package Catalog · Pi
Extensions, skills, prompt templates, and themes published to npm. Install with pi install npm:. See the package docs for details · Pendant-inspired theme for PI WEB: Source Sans 3 body font, Press Start 2P pixel accents, sharp corners, flat surfaces, subtle pixel grid.
Package Catalog · Pi
Extensions, skills, prompt templates, and themes published to npm. Install with pi install npm:. See the package docs for details · Web search, URL fetching, GitHub repo cloning, PDF extraction, YouTube video understanding, and local video analysis for Pi coding agent.
Package Catalog · Pi
Extensions, skills, prompt templates, and themes published to npm. Install with pi install npm:. See the package docs for details · Personal Pi toolkit: extensions and themes
Package Catalog · Pi
Extensions, skills, prompt templates, and themes published to npm. Install with pi install npm:. See the package docs for details · Web search, URL fetching, GitHub repo cloning, PDF extraction, YouTube video understanding, and local video analysis for Pi coding agent.
pi - Coding Agent
There are many coding agents, but this one is mine · Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness. A coding agent designed for customization and control, not dictating workflows
Pi Coding Agent
Web search, URL fetching, GitHub repo cloning, PDF extraction, YouTube video understanding, and local video analysis for Pi coding agent · Install pi-web-access from npm and Pi will load the resources declared by the package manifest
Pi Coding Agent
Pi Coding Agent is a minimal, hackable terminal harness for building and customizing AI coding-agent workflows. Keep the core small and extend or replace context management, sub-agents, permissions and workflows via extensions.
Pi Coding Agent
Guides and references for configuring and extending Pi · This page gets you from install to a useful first pi session
Pi Coding Agent
Web search, URL fetching, GitHub repo cloning, PDF extraction, YouTube video understanding, and local video analysis for Pi coding agent · Install pi-web-access from npm and Pi will load the resources declared by the package manifest
Pi Coding Agent - AI Agent
An open-source terminal coding agent that developers can extend with packages, skills, prompts, and custom workflows.
Pi Coding Agent - The coding-agent harness you can make your own | ProductCool
Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness. Adapt Pi to your workflows, not the other way around. Customize Pi with extensions, skills, prompt templates, and themes. Bundle them as Pi packages and share via npm or git. Pi ships with powerful defaults but skips features like sub-agents and plan mode.
Pi Coding Agent Setup Guide: Install, Configure Models, and Best Extensions
Step-by-step guide to installing Pi coding agent, connecting cheap models like MiniMax M2.7 and Qwen 3.6, and setting up the most useful extensions. Covers LazyPi one-command setup and the Rust port alternative.
Pi Coding Agent: A Self-Documenting, Extensible AI Partner - DEV Community
Exploring Pi's ability to read its own documentation, understand its codebase, and help extend or modify its behavior through natural conversation. Tagged with ai, agents, agentskills.
Pi Coding Agent: AI Terminal with Memory, Web Search & GitHub
Enhance Pi terminal coding with Pi Coding Agent. Features persistent cross-session memory, integrated web search, and GitHub MCP for AI interactions. Optimized for Nix users.
Pi coding agent: how to install (npm) extensions? - #2 by boxenlude - Help - NixOS Discourse
Hi all! I’ve installed the pi-coding-agent package from unstable. It works fine, but installing extensions (e.g. pi-mcp-adapter) does not work, because it calls npm install under the hood (I assume) and thus results in: …
Pi Coding Agent: The coding-agent harness you can make your own | ChatGate
Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness. Adapt Pi to your workflows, not the other way around. Customize Pi with extensions, skills, prompt templates, and themes. Bundle them as Pi packages and share via npm or git. Pi ships with powerful defaults but skips features like sub-agents and plan mode.
Pi Coding Agent: The coding-agent harness you can make your own | Product Hunt
Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness. Adapt Pi to your workflows, not the other way around. Customize Pi with extensions, skills, prompt templates, and themes. Bundle them as Pi packages and share via npm or git. Pi ships with powerful defaults but skips features like sub-agents and plan mode.
Pi Coding Agent: The Only Claude Code Competitor | Agentic Engineer
The Pi Coding Agent is what Claude Code is not: open source, customizable to the core, and built for engineers who want full control of their agentic engineering stack. Learn why mid-to-senior engineers should use Claude Code AND Pi together for outsized results.
Pi Coding Harness Review 2026: Minimal Terminal Agent, Extensions, Pricing, and Alternatives
A practical Pi review for developers searching for the Pi coding harness: what it is, how installation works, what is free, where the risks are, and which alternatives to compare.
Pi Review - Minimal open-source terminal coding agent focused on extensibility, tree-structured sessions, and shell-native repo workflows.
Pi is Mario Zechner's open-source terminal coding agent for developers who want a coding harness they can bend to their workflow instead of another locked IDE shell. The official docs emphasize extensibility through TypeScript extensions, skills, prompt templates, themes, packages, SDK, and ...
pi-github · Packages · Pi
GitHub tool extension for Pi: format threads, list issues/PRs, and inspect PR diffs/images · Install pi-github from npm and Pi will load the resources declared by the package manifest
pi-init - npmx
A pi agent skill to initialize or update AGENTS.md context files.
pi-package-template
# 1. Clone this template git clone https://github.com/YOU/pi-package-template.git my-pi-package cd my-pi-package # 2. Install dev dependencies (for type checking) npm install # 3. Edit package.json — set name, description, author, repository # 4. Start building!
pi-system-theme CDN by jsDelivr - A CDN for npm and GitHub
A free, fast, and reliable CDN for pi-system-theme. Sync Pi theme with macOS light/dark appearance
pi-tokensaver CDN by jsDelivr - A CDN for npm and GitHub
A free, fast, and reliable CDN for pi-tokensaver. Give your Pi AI agent a semantic memory — bridges tokensave's Rust-powered local graph engine into your coding workflow for token-efficient codebase exploration
pi-workflow 0.1.7 on npm - Libraries.io - security & maintenance data for open source software
Visual companion for pi coding agent workflows - 0.1.7 - a TypeScript package on npm
Pi: The Minimal Coding Agent That Wins by Doing Less | atal upadhyay
If you've been using AI coding assistants lately, you've probably felt it: More features → more complexity → more things that can break Sub-agents, plan mode, MCP integrations… but you still just want to write code Context getting eaten silently, bugs piling up, behavior becoming ...
Pi: The Open-Source AI Coding Agent You Probably Haven't Tried Yet - DEV Community
If you've been following the AI coding agent space, you've likely heard of Claude Code, GitHub...
Pi.dev Review: The Pi Coding Agent Tested Hands-On - Petronella Cybersecurity News
Pi.dev review: the open-source pi coding agent tested hands-on. Features, model providers, data handling, and fit for HIPAA and CMMC-regulated teams.
r/ClaudeCode on Reddit: Change your coding agent to pi
https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/blob/main/packages/coding-agent
r/hackernews on Reddit: Pi – a minimal terminal coding harness
A terminal-based coding agent · Discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143754
r/LocalLLM on Reddit: Pi coding agent is amazing (or how I learned to stop worrying and leave OpenCode)
38 votes, 51 comments. Warning: long post ahead. On the plus side, it’s completely human-written. No AI slop was used in writing this post. I’m old…
r/PiCodingAgent on Reddit: Pi devs, I have some questions regarding browsers, web-search, subagents etc
26 votes, 39 comments. Hi all, I have been playing with pi for sometime. But am struggling at having elegant ways to handle some things. Hoping you…
r/PiCodingAgent on Reddit: These are the packages i use
"packages": [ "npm:pi-mcp-adapter", "npm:@tintinweb/pi-subagents", "npm:@plannotator/pi-extension", "npm:@juicesharp/rpiv-todo", "npm:@juicesharp/rpiv-ask-user-question", "npm:pi-lens", "npm:@juicesharp/rpiv-advisor", "npm:pi-btw", "npm:pi-rewind-hook", "npm:@gotgenes/pi-permission-system", "git:github.com/leblancfg/pi-ansi-themes", "npm:pi-caveman", "npm:@juicesharp/rpiv-pi", "npm:@juicesharp/rpiv-args", "npm:pi-simplify", "npm:pi-studio", "npm:@ff-labs/pi-fff", "npm:pi-gsd", "npm:@aliou/pi-processes", "npm:@juicesharp/rpiv-web-tools", "git:github.com/ferologics/pi-notify", "git:github.com/jayshah5696/pi-agent-extensions", "npm:context-mode", "npm:pi-agent-browser-native", "npm:taskplane", "npm:pi-hermes-memory", "npm:@apmantza/greedysearch-pi", "npm:@feniix/pi-specdocs", "npm:@kaiserlich-dev/pi-session-search", "npm:pi-interactive-shell" ] }
r/PiCodingAgent on Reddit: Web UI for pi coding agent recommendation ?
14 votes, 19 comments. are there any webui like openchamber for opencode ?
r/PiCodingAgent on Reddit: What you guys have been using for web search/fetch on Pi?
14 votes, 30 comments. Hi! I'm new on Pi agent world and I'm missing some good package or tool to make web search properly. What are you guys using…
Setting Up and Using the Pi Coding Agent | DeepakNess
With this package, Pi can search the web, read documentation, understand YouTube videos, and clone and explore GitHub repositories – all without leaving the terminal.
Themes - Awesome Pi Coding Agent
Custom themes and color schemes for the Pi TUI · An opinionated Pi agent configuration. Includes: custom theme, plan mode, artifacts, subagents, LLM council, configurable restrictions, MCP support and a styled UI
What Is Pi Agent?
What is Pi Agent? Explore this lightweight, open-source terminal AI coding agent with just four tools. Ideal for developers and businesses seeking efficient AI automation solutions.