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Why Mario Zechner Built the Pi Coding Agent

by Ashik Nesin Ashik Nesin

One of my favourite coding agent recently is Pi - it’s a very minimal and highly extensible coding agent.

It barely has any 4 system tools and a very basic system prompt.

And his philosophy in building the Pi is

Strip away everything, build a minimal, extensible core

How to get started?

npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent

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