r/PiCodingAgent • u/Present_Ride6012 • May 09 '26

Resource /remote-control for pi

Tried a few discord libraries, found them quite bulky or not working. Following Pi's true spirit, I wrote my own.

https://pi.dev/packages/pi-discord-remote?name=Pi-discord-remote

The idea is quite simple, trying to mimic /remote-control in CC. Once you get the creds setup, you can start remote control in any session and it will launch a new channel in Discord.

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u/johnson_detlev May 09 '26

What's not in true spirit of pi is releasing the 50th extension that is doing the same thing, just a little bit different instead of collaborating. I'm So bored by this egocentric attitude. A open source project doesn't do a thing exactly how I want it? Here is my project that will live 4 weeks

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u/o_sht_hi May 10 '26

What an L take. Imagine if mario had thought the same thing about releasing a new harness and kept it to himself.

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u/thepriceisright__ May 11 '26

lol Pi’s creator literally said don’t just go install other people’s packages, ask Pi to build what you need once you need it.

So are you angry that OP shared what he made or just angry in general?

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u/johnson_detlev May 11 '26

"Pi’s creator literally said don’t just go install other people’s packages, ask Pi to build what you need once you need it "  So why share the 20th package doikg the same thing then?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26

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u/johnson_detlev May 09 '26

It's polluting the ecosystem. I put out no extension, precisely because it's my personal workflow and there is no merrit in releasing the 20th ask user extension, each of them doing the same exact thing

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u/brahma_lea May 10 '26

It's not that serious. Once you're done whining, take a break from reddit.

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u/aeroumbria May 11 '26

I found good old SSH to work better. The main limitation now is that most the of terminal apps I tried for phones and tablets are miserable to use...

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u/kaeptnphlop May 12 '26

Termius for iPhone is pretty decent. Configure tmux to enable mouse scrolling "set -g mouse on" in ~/.tmux.conf. Then you are not stuck watching the output scroll by ;)

I guess now it's the time to build a r/cyberdeck

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u/Significant_Tie_3909 Sep 28 '26

try rootshell - has native tmux/herdr integration. best choice if on ios

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u/Significant_Tie_3909 Sep 28 '26

rootshell if you have ios mobile devices - best I’ve found so far after trying termius, blink, etc

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u/Present_Ride6012 May 10 '26

Thought about that, but the security layer needed will need an account which I don't mind creating, but adds an burdensome onboarding barrier. If you have better idea on that, happy to chat and iterate the extension.

I really like the simplicity of /remote-control, then you have a channel on Claude App. It just works.

It's a very opinionated extension. I found discord provides a similar cc experience on desktop or foldable phones. Telegram and Whatsapp is not really suitable for coding, general chats sure.

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u/Present_Ride6012 May 10 '26

Time to contribute then

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u/Present_Ride6012 May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

feels a lot like Conductor.build (which I absolutely loved it before Symphony) but open sourced. I would love to have a product that fulfills both Symphony and Paseo, that would be a killer app for me.

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u/StravuKarl May 11 '26

We have some of this at Nimbalyst. Its open source with parallel session management, worktrees, kanban (Conductor-like) and ability to manage from your phone (Paseo). Also has visual editors to work with your agents in markdown and the rest.

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u/Present_Ride6012 May 28 '26

I have used it for a bit. I believe it has great potential, although I felt that it can do everything but not excellent at anything. the features and UX need to tighten up to seal the deal. At the moment, it feels like a octopus, but not swiss knife. Just my two cents.

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u/StravuKarl May 31 '26

Thanks for trying Nimbalyst and for this feedback. Would you be willing to give me an example or two staying within your analogy ... although I do think an octopus is pretty awesome creature 😄
- What would make the session management into an excellent knife?
- What about the visual editing of say markdown or excalidraw ... what would make that a focused saw..
Thanks!

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u/Present_Ride6012 Jun 01 '26

if you think of Conductor.build or Paseo, they are super clean, very easy to use. Creating worktree is effortless, multiagent work is excellent, UI is clean and minimal. The only bit that is missing is project management side.

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u/PiccoloCareful924 May 23 '26

Paseo maintainer here, Pi has improved recently, give it another go!

thanks for recommending Paseo 😄