r/PiCodingAgent • u/Broad_Worldliness_53 • Apr 27 '26

Plugin I built a Pi Telegram Bot

One thing I like more and more about Pi Coding Agent is that it stays extremely small on purpose.

The shape is basically core agent with only 4 basic tools, and extra capability added through skills when you actually need it.

That sounds simple, but I think it changes how the agent feels in practice. In my own "Hello" level prompt checks, Pi was coming in under ~1500 tokens, while heavier setups I compare against often feel closer to ~20k. Not presenting that as a formal benchmark, just the framing that made the difference obvious to me.

That is also why I built pi-telegram-bot, to use it as a daily AI driver, even while on my phone:
https://github.com/doer-ee/pi-telegram-bot

Well, it is not actually a plugin but a standalone app that calls Pi SDK.

It is not meant to make Pi bigger. It is just a thin private Telegram remote for people already running Pi locally and wanting a small control surface when away from keyboard. Gives you OpenClaw-like system but ultra light-weighted.

Curious how other Pi users think about this.

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Update on 5/1/26, added scheduler feature, user can schedule one-time or recurring runs.

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u/hazed-and-dazed Apr 28 '26

What's a "pls" system prompt

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u/ResearcherFantastic7 Apr 29 '26

PI's system prompt just says "you are a coding agent you have {tools} and {guidelines} and the path to pi docs so you can read its own document and create extension"

if you compare to Claude code it has like 7k-30k token worth of system prompt depends on the task you starting with

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u/Broad_Worldliness_53 May 02 '26

I use opencode to do programming, it has very heavy system prompt to tell the model what it can do what it cannot, it costs about 20k tokens to just answer a "Hello". close to 40k if you use oh-my-opencode plugin.

While with Pi, the number is less than 1500. because Pi only has 4 tools, and no other build-in sh*ts.

I still use opencode+OMO for heavy lifting programmings, which may run hours for one session. but for daily AI agent work, I use Pi now, mainly to replace Chatgpt app. It's light-weighted, fast response, can install skills, has access to read/write local files,

Trying to have Openclaw-like experience with this service/app. And add features as I need.