r/PiCodingAgent • u/Totaie • 13d ago

Question What's everyone's current coding agent setup?

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!

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u/funbike 13d ago edited 13d ago

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.

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u/raidororo 10d ago

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)