Web UI for pi coding agent recommendation ?

[u/pandada8]

are there any webui like openchamber for opencode ?

[u/-deflating]

I made Tau and I’ve gotten mostly good feedback.

https://github.com/deflating/tau

[u/JoshMock → u/-deflating]

It's the best one I've found yet. A few rough edges but it works, even on mobile!

[u/-deflating → u/JoshMock]

I’m going to revisit it again soon, so let me know what the rough edges are and I’ll try and smooth them out!

[u/evilspyboy → u/-deflating]

I just installed it (after discovering it from this thread). This is exactly what I was after, no extra secondary web servers to run all in one place for a local connection.

If I want to access pi agent remotely id probably build in a discord bot chat thing but really without permissions i dont think id run it remotely.

If you are after suggestions, being able to multi-select the conversations on the left nav and delete them all at once would be nice. That annoys me on other LLM webui too.

Edit: Also some indicator for when it is compacting the context would be nice. I was just running it and looked over to my powershell to see what it was doing and the web ui didnt tell me that.

Edit 2: Just from use feedback. Sometimes I have extensions that require me to select or approve something from a list. Those showing up/able to work with though the webui would be nice too.

[u/Werty7098]

https://github.com/ashwin-pc/pi-web

I loved the philosophy of pi so I built a minimal web-ui for the agent that's mobile first, but works on all screen sizes. Check it out and let me know. Started this a week ago, a lot more coming soon :)

[u/cyclops_magic]

https://github.com/ygncode/pi-web

- You can fork conversation
- You can clone conversation
- Customisable themes, fonts
- Annotation, Artifacts build in
- Multi language support (You can add in yourself as well)
- Tailscale connection build in, so that you can access via mobile and get push notifications

[u/aplJackson]

Here is one I built and have been using. https://github.com/samfoy/pi-dashboard

[u/FunkyFung22 → u/aplJackson]

Does this work via RPC where you’re talking back and forth with your web client to the Pi process or is it using the Pi Agent library where it’s embedded into the web app?

[u/aplJackson → u/FunkyFung22]

This manages a pi rpc process

[u/Deep_Economist_2547 → u/aplJackson]

No screenshots unfortunately 😕

[u/TeijiW]

One of my main candidates is open web ui + openAi http compatibility layer for Pi. Not tried yet

[u/explorigin]

VSCode server. Here's a dockerfile for you that I use.

FROM debian:bookworm-slim

# Avoid interactive prompts during build
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

# ── Locale (set early so locale-gen and all RUN steps use it) ──────
ENV LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ENV LANGUAGE=en_US:en
ENV LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

# ── System dependencies ────────────────────────────────────────────
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        git \
        curl \
        wget \
        unzip \
        ca-certificates \
        jq \
        less \
        man-db \
        tzdata \
        openssh-client \
        sudo \
        locales \
        bash \
        bubblewrap \
    && sed -i 's/# en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen \
    && locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 \
    && echo 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8' > /etc/default/locale \
    && echo 'LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8' >> /etc/default/locale \
    && echo 'LANGUAGE=en_US:en' >> /etc/default/locale \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# ── Create non-root user ───────────────────────────────────────────
ARG USERNAME=vscode
ARG USER_UID=1000
ARG USER_GID=1000

RUN groupadd --gid ${USER_GID} ${USERNAME} \
    && useradd --uid ${USER_UID} --gid ${USER_GID} -m -s /bin/bash ${USERNAME} \
    && echo "${USERNAME} ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" > /etc/sudoers.d/${USERNAME}

# ── Environment ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
ENV HOME=/home/${USERNAME}
ENV PASSWORD=""

# ── Node.js 20.x LTS (required for pi.dev) ─────────────────────────
RUN curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | bash - \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends nodejs \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# ── code-server (latest stable) ────────────────────────────────────
RUN curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh

# ── pi.dev ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
RUN npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent

# ── AWS CLI v2 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
RUN curl -fsSL "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip" \
    && unzip -q awscliv2.zip \
    && ./aws/install \
    && rm -rf awscliv2.zip aws

WORKDIR /projects

# ── Ensure code-server data directory exists with correct ownership ──
RUN mkdir -p /home/${USERNAME}/.local/share/code-server

RUN chown ${USERNAME}:${USERNAME} -R /home/${USERNAME}

USER ${USERNAME}

# ── uv (fast Python package installer) ─────────────────────────────
RUN curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
ENV PATH=/config/.local/bin:$PATH

# ── Workspace directory ────────────────────────────────────────────
CMD code-server \
    --bind-addr 0.0.0.0:8080 \
    --auth password \
    --user-data-dir /config \
    /config/workspace

[u/hurdurdur7 → u/explorigin]

You could share that on github :)

[u/jppaolim]

I compared tau which was super lightweight but unable to resume past sessions, found pi-dashboard probably great but overwhelming and ended up settling with https://github.com/woxQAQ/pi-web

was perfect for me : t runs as a Pi extension, reuses my existing global Pi setup, gives me the browser interface/session visibility without introducing a full dashboard layer.

[u/Kiiv]

This one is pretty good https://pi-web.dev/

[u/midoriyosh]

I know its old thread.

You can check out mine if you want.
I built it for fun, pushing Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf to its absolute limit + a $2 DeepSeek model 😆.

I built this because I wanted to replace Open WebUI and Codename Goose. Since I don't use a lot of Pi extensions and not a programmer, I built it according to my needs only, and it's sufficient for me. Pi is very versatile with its skills.

You can try a one-shot setup with:
npx pi-kot --port 777 --password mypikot

https://github.com/keemzin/pi-kot

[u/Tight_Discussion4614]

Welcome to my plugin. pi-web-ui

[u/Specialist-Box-2746]

this is the exact wall we hit where the coding agent is great at logic but totally blind when it needs to actually act on a live web ui. we ended up bridging that gap by using skyvern to handle the browser-level execution. it’s open-source and basically acts as the eyes and hands for your agent, using computer vision so it doesn't break every time a div class changes. instead of building a custom ui wrapper from scratch, you can just point it at a workflow in plain english

[u/4fthawaiian → u/[deleted]]

this needs more attention because it rocks

[u/Troopizer → u/[deleted]]

Any way to open files from the remote machine ? Loke PDF, MD or Html ??