Getting Started with pi, an Extensible AI Agent Harness
Figure 1. pi agent harness cover image AI coding agents have moved from the browser into the terminal, right next to the tools we already use every day. pi is such an agent: a fast, terminal-native coding assistant that reads and writes files, runs shell commands and talks to a range of LLM providers – all from within your project directory. What makes pi interesting is that it is scriptable and extensible. Besides its interactive TUI it offers a non-interactive mode for one-shot prompts and an RPC mode for embedding it into other tools, and it can be extended with custom tools, skills, prompt templates and themes packaged and shared through npm or git. ...