Pi agent
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Build with and use Pi, the minimal terminal coding harness. Use for installing Pi, configuring providers/models/settings, creating Pi skills/extensions/packages/themes/prompt templates, embedding Pi through the SDK, integrating over RPC or JSON event streams, parsing sessions, developing custom Pi providers and TUI components, or using ecosystem packages such as pi-subagents (delegation/orchestration), pi-mcp-adapter (MCP servers), pi-interview (interactive forms), and pi-web-access (web search, fetching, video understanding).
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SKILL.md
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Pi Agent
Use this skill when the user wants to operate Pi or build on top of Pi. Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness extended through TypeScript extensions, skills, prompt templates, themes, packages, custom models/providers, SDK integrations, RPC mode, JSON event streams, and TUI components.
First Decision
Pick the reference before answering or coding:
| User intent | Read |
|---|---|
| Install, authenticate, first run | references/quickstart.md |
| Day-to-day CLI usage, commands, modes, flags | references/usage.md |
| Provider auth, API keys, cloud provider setup | references/providers.md |
| Custom model entries, local models, proxies | references/models.md |
| Extension development, custom tools, events, commands | references/extensions.md |
| Custom provider implementation, OAuth, custom streaming | references/custom-provider.md |
| Embed Pi in Node/TypeScript | references/sdk.md |
| Integrate from another process/language | references/rpc.md |
| Consume JSONL event output | references/json.md |
| Build terminal UI components | references/tui.md |
| Package extensions/skills/prompts/themes | references/packages.md |
| Delegate to subagents, chains, parallel runs, orchestration | references/pi-subagents.md |
| Connect MCP servers, MCP tool discovery/config | references/pi-mcp-adapter.md |
| Interactive interview forms, structured user input | references/pi-interview.md |
| Web search, URL/PDF/repo fetching, video understanding | references/pi-web-access.md |
| Author Pi skills | references/skills.md |
| Prompt templates or themes | references/prompt-templates.md, references/themes.md |
| Sessions, branching, compaction, parsing JSONL | references/sessions.md, references/compaction.md, references/session-format.md |
| Security, sandboxing, trust | references/security.md, references/containerization.md |
| Keyboard or terminal issues | references/keybindings.md, references/terminal-setup.md, references/tmux.md, references/windows.md, references/termux.md, references/shell-aliases.md |
| Working on Pi itself | references/development.md |
Build-On-Pi Defaults
Prefer the SDK for Node/TypeScript apps that need type safety, direct state access, in-process custom tools/extensions, or custom resource loading. Use createAgentSession() for a single stable session; use createAgentSessionRuntime() when the app must replace sessions through new/resume/fork/clone/import flows.
Prefer RPC mode when the client is not Node.js, needs process isolation, or wants a language-agnostic JSONL protocol. Start with pi --mode rpc --no-session for stateless subprocess integration, then add session flags when persistence matters.
Prefer JSON mode for one-shot command-line pipelines that only need streamed events, not bidirectional control: pi --mode json "prompt".
Use extensions for Pi-native behavior: custom tools, command handlers, event hooks, provider registration, custom compaction, path protection, project trust policy, UI prompts, widgets, and TUI components.
Use packages when sharing or installing reusable extensions, skills, prompt templates, or themes across machines or projects.
Safety Defaults
Pi is local and not sandboxed by default. Treat extensions, packages, skills, shell commands, and project-local .pi resources as code with the permissions of the Pi process. For untrusted repos or unattended automation, isolate with Docker, OpenShell, Gondolin, a VM, or a remote sandbox.
Do not store secrets in project files. Prefer env vars, ~/.pi/agent/auth.json, OAuth via /login, or command-backed secret lookups in models.json/provider config.
Common Commands
npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent
pi
pi -p "Summarize this codebase"
pi --mode json "List files"
pi --mode rpc --no-session
pi --provider anthropic --model claude-sonnet-4-5
pi --tools read,grep,find,ls -p "Review this repository"
Source Coverage
These references summarize the Pi documentation at https://pi.dev/docs/latest and each docs page found under it as of this skill version, plus the package pages for pi-subagents, pi-mcp-adapter, pi-interview, and pi-web-access at https://pi.dev/packages/. When exact API behavior matters, prefer the cited reference page and inspect installed TypeScript definitions under node_modules/@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent/dist/ and node_modules/@earendil-works/pi-ai/dist/.
Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most agent orchestration skills give in ~1.0k tokens
Counted across 742 of the 995 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-06
- run the full test suite after integrating changesin 53 of 742, across 20 files
- reference existing artifacts by path or URLin 52 of 742, across 22 files
- dispatch one agent per independent problem domainin 50 of 742, across 17 files
- verify fixes do not conflictin 45 of 742, across 13 files
- include a suggested skills section in the documentin 45 of 742, across 15 files
- redact sensitive informationin 41 of 742, across 11 files
- save to the temporary directory of the operating systemin 39 of 742, across 9 files
- tailor the document to user-provided focus argumentsin 39 of 742, across 9 files
- spot check agent changes for systematic errorsin 34 of 742, across 7 files
- write a handoff document summarising the current conversationin 31 of 742, across 6 files
- assign each agent a specific scopein 23 of 742, across 8 files
- provide specific scope and clear goalin 23 of 742, across 5 files
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