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Pi

An extensible terminal coding-agent toolkit with a deliberately small default prompt.

At a glance:
First seen:2026-07-12
Last seen:2026-07-12
Sightings:1
Source:github.com

What it is

An extensible terminal coding-agent toolkit with a deliberately small default prompt.

Why developers recommend it

Several commenters recommended Pi as a lower-overhead, more controllable alternative to bundled coding-agent harnesses.

Hacker News evidence

2026-07-12

HN users said Pi sends roughly 1k tokens of setup context and praised its transparent, extensible workflow.

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k