On the one hand, sure, why not have a default install throw a bunch of bells+whistles via skills and extensions.

But I like pi precisely because it is so minimal. I want understand and work around the simplest possible agentic coding setup, find the sharp edges, maybe even improve my prompting ability. And doing all three with a locally hosted LLM.

At some point, if I don't understand the foundations, am I just punting on actually thinking about what I'm doing?

Of course, making individual choices about how to do agentic coding are precisely just making individual choices. People should do what makes them happy and productive.

haha i was waiting for this exact thing lazyvim:vim::pi:lazypi, thanks for sharing

Why does this makes more sense over OpenCode?

i think to fall in love with Pi, bundled skills are a bit antithetical - you realistically only need a couple of skills that you maybe design yourself

Pi makes you think about what you’re doing with it on purpose. This defeats that, as the Mario quote on the page says, and therefore isn’t worth using.

People really need to try out “less is more”. The new models are quite smart, so suffocating their context with dozens of MCPs and skills isn’t necessary like it used to be. A cli tool with good built in help and good errors is amazingly easy for the model to figure out.

If Pi is too minimal for you and you don’t want to dig into it, OpenCode is pretty good out of the box. I use it for general work I haven’t setup Pi for. The only thing I add to OpenCode is some commands that are shortcuts to save me typing frequent prompts, and a subagent with a fixed model for implementing changes.

This thing defeats the whole purpose of Pi.

I think the developers of Pi made a supply chain mistake by stripping down the core agent and requiring features like subagents to load plugins written by some random person.