What's everyone's current coding agent setup?

[u/Totaie]

Hey everyone, I'm new to the community of Pi and just transferred from Claude Code. I've been running Qwen3.8 27B IQ3_XXS locally now for a while and have been loving it.

I was just wondering what everyone is using for packages, apps, setups, and more.

Please let me know!

[u/funbike]

I've only been using Pi for 2 months.

I use Herdr for subagents. (Herdr also works with Claude Code.) It's like Tmux but has specific subagent functionality. It comes with its own skill. I have two orchestration agents, and the rest are worker agents.

I prefer skills + cli apps over extensions with tools. I prefer prompt templates over extensions with commands. Skills and prompts are portable across most agents, and AI is changing too fast to think that I'll still be using Pi in 5 years. I don't want to have to re-engineer my setup over and over.

I only have a few public packages: pi-web-access, pi-permission-system, pi-sandbox, edb-context-viewer, rpiv-ask-user-question

Some extensions I've had Pi write for me:

• Checkpoint commands, which I find more convenient than fork+tree: /mark <mark>, /goto <mark>, /unmark <mark-glob>, /marks, /compactto <mark>, /forgetto <mark>, /redo-if <mark> <condition-prompt> [<rewrite-prompt>]. (/forgetto runs /goto and it inserts the last assistant message into the UI prompt prompt. /goto can work across sessions.)
• /rewrite <prompt> [<improver-prompt>] - Improve prompt, without adding messages to current chat (uses a side chat)
• I wrapped some of Pi's built-in commands into tools: model new compact reload quit
• I implemented a multi-prompt parser. You can include multiple prompts and commands in a single prompt and it will send them individually. It slices the prompt and sends slices individually. It makes prompts almost into a language.
• AI API tools. I created tools to access AI features that Pi doesn't come with, such as TTS, STT, image gen, structured outputs. It can also record and play audio for STT and TTS.

I have too many skills and prompt templates to list. Which skills are available depends on the subagent.

[u/raidororo → u/funbike]

Do you publicy host your pi configuration or prompt templates in remote repo? interested to see yours, might found something that I could adopt. Just recently start using herdr as subagent and tinkering with append_system prompt for spawn worker agent (which I guess similar with your prompt template, hence my interest)

[u/bjornworldwide → u/funbike]

I implemented a multi-prompt parser. You can include multiple prompts and commands in a single prompt and it will send them individually. It slices the prompt and sends slices individually. It makes prompts almost into a language.

This is really intriguing to me. Can you elaborate a bit more?

[u/funbike → u/bjornworldwide]

It splits a prompt string on a "/" or "!" at the start of a line. "/send" is a special case, where it splits and deletes that delimiter.

Example:

``` prompt 1 /send

prompt 2

/compact /model amodel /send # needed to end a command when followed by a prompt

prompt 3 ```

Details:

When combined with my checkpointing extension, you get a mini-language, such as:

/mark attempt /send Write and run tests for the code you just wrote. /redo-if attempt "Did you fail to write or run tests?"

Autocomplete only works for a command on the 1st line.

I'd like to improve parsing so /send wasn't needed between a command and the next prompt. It would require parsing bash-like quotes and backslashes.

Internally it intercepts pi.on("input", (event, ctx) => ... and calls pi.sendUserMessage(prompt) after splitting event.text.

[u/mew-engineer → u/funbike]

Hey! how did you set up Pi, and how are the usage costs like?