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Getting Started with pi, an Extensible AI Agent Harness

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

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.

How to create a Confluence SOAP Component in 5 Minutes

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0200

You’re using the popular Confluence wiki? You’re using its RPC/SOAP API and missing a function you really need? Just extend the capabilities of the Confluence RPC API by programming a custom web service component – it is really easy and also well documented.

In this tutorial we’re going to take a look on how to quickly implement a SOAP service, securing it and putting its methods in a transactional context.

Prerequisites

Maven >=2
JDK >= 5
Confluence Wiki >= 3.0 (for a quick installation guide take a look at this article)
SoapUI for Testing

How to build a Confluence SOAP client in 5 minutes

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

In this tutorial we are going to build a SOAP client for the popular Confluence Wiki in about five minutes. The client is going to receive rendered HTML Markup from a specified Confluence Page.

Prerequisites

A running Confluence Installation with SOAP API enabled – if you don’t already have one take a look at this article or if you’ve got the Atlassian Plugin SDK installed .. start a standalone instance using atlas-run-standalone ..
Maven – never go without it ;)
Five minutes of your life time ..