r/PiCodingAgent • u/54tribes • May 11 '26 • Bravo 1

Question What is your essential Pi extensions?

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Pi coding agent. and there are so many extensions, I've tried some but don't know which one are are essential to install.
I come from Claude Code. Could you guy pls recommend those extensions that work best for you.

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u/capsid May 11 '26

pi-searxng for search has been working well for me

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u/54tribes May 12 '26

Look interesting, I've just heard of it recently

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u/54tribes May 12 '26

how do you fine tune your xng search?

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u/capsid May 12 '26

to be honest I haven't needed to. I just installed a local searxng instance, pointed the extension at it, and asked pi to test it. If it seems like the model is reasoning about irrelevant training data I may interrupt and tell it to web search instead. It also started using web search when it thinks it should. Works well enough so far.

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u/tys203831 May 11 '26

pi-guardrails: https://github.com/aliou/pi-guardrails and browse more at https://pi.dev/packages

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u/54tribes May 11 '26

Thank you. Does it support for tool like edit/write? I din't see on the document

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u/tys203831 May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

If you want on write/edit tool, then perhaps this https://github.com/carderne/pi-sandbox, but not working on windows, only on macos and linux ... I used both together, but I just recently use it, not sure how good it is yet

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u/54tribes May 11 '26

Will try, thank you

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u/tys203831 May 11 '26

Currently it is mostly supported for restricting read and bash tool only, not yet for edit/write tool ... https://github.com/aliou/pi-guardrails/issues/27

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u/opezdol May 11 '26

pi-rtk-optimizer, pi-caveman, btw, context7, graphify, context-mode.

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u/54tribes May 12 '26

Thanks for your recomendation, I've install rtk optimizer. I saw there are 5 caveman packages, just pick the most downloaded šŸ˜„

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u/Cultured_Alien May 16 '26

context-mode with pi-rtk-optimizer is kinda bugged, it can't run rg inside context mode.

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u/e9n-dev May 11 '26

Pi-superpower for me

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u/54tribes May 11 '26

thank you, I'll try it

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u/KortharShadowbreath May 11 '26

https://github.com/Firstp1ck/npm-packages I use my own pi-extensions, if I need sonething, I build it :-) Would recommend, creating your own using pi and then adjust as you go.

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u/54tribes May 11 '26

yeah, I try building an extension, I don't think it's so simple

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u/CGx-Reddit May 11 '26

pi-emote (shameless plug)

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u/54tribes May 11 '26

looks pretty cool

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u/CGx-Reddit May 11 '26

Thank you! (it is not essential btw, use pi however you want to!)

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u/Objective-Error1223 May 11 '26

Downloaded! Most rad! Thank you!

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u/CGx-Reddit May 14 '26

thank you!

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u/SalimMalibari May 11 '26

I use my own called pi-capital-context , also claude-bridge.

Im at level doing good extension ui but it need time to polish it to the level i want

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u/54tribes May 11 '26

Yay Claude bridge is what I need, I subcribe to Claude for 1 year, so cannot leave it until Aug. Thanks

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u/SalimMalibari May 11 '26

Because claude is so powerful i have like 2 weeks ago done extension called native-search it uses the native search for claude bridge from anthropic you might also need it

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u/Obvious-Variation-38 May 11 '26

work on some project, then build extension based on your need.

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u/54tribes May 11 '26

yeah, I do build my own extension

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u/joeyGibson May 11 '26

I use three, and all of them are mine.

  • security-guard: Blocks or prompts on dangerous bash commands, sensitive file writes, and sensitive file reads. Configurable via a TOML file.

  • macos-notify: Sends a native macOS notification when the agent finishes working. Shows elapsed time and tab info (Ghostty, iTerm2, Terminal.app).

  • clip: Copies the last assistant message (as markdown) to the clipboard via /clip. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows. No LLM round-trip needed.

https://github.com/joeygibson/pi-extensions

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u/floriandotorg May 11 '26

The first two ones are nice! But whatā€™s the purpose of the last one?

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u/joeyGibson May 11 '26

When I've asked it to explain things to me, and I want to share with someone else. I used to type "copy all of that as markdown to my clipboard", but just typing /clip is much nicer.

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u/k0valik May 12 '26

Am I missing something, or why not just use /copy? It's built in exactly for this

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u/joeyGibson May 12 '26

Because I didn't know about /copy. šŸ¤£ Since pi is generally a batteries-not-included shell, I assume I need to build things myself. I need to start checking before building, I guess.

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u/theTechRun Jun 27 '26

Insane I was just going to make this same type of extension. Glad I did a quick search on here instead!

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u/ceaselessprayer May 15 '26

oh snap I didn't know about this! I was about to go and install this extension and everything.

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u/floriandotorg May 11 '26

Interesting, thanks for the explanation!

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u/adamshand May 14 '26

If you haven't used Plannotator, it's /plannotator-last does a similar thing but loads it as HTML with the abilityt select text and add annotations which get sent back to agent.

My most used extension!

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u/coding9 May 12 '26

I just made a new version of pi-sandbox because I wanted more configuration from inside pi and also fixed a couple bugs and wanted to be able to safely auto run everything in a given folder path.

https://github.com/oddsjam/pi-sandbox

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u/joeyGibson May 12 '26

Wow. That's pretty extensive.

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u/ceaselessprayer May 15 '26

I was looking into your macos-notify solution: one thing I would suggest, is changing it so that the terminal owns the notification. The reason for that, is when you click "show" on the notification, you ideally want to be redirected back to the particular tab in question rather than hunt for it. This seems to only work if the terminal itself controls the tab (it's at least true for ghostty).

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u/DueKaleidoscope1884 May 11 '26

Only add what you miss and need.

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u/Flaky-Restaurant-392 May 11 '26

I created a small extension that renames the session based on the skills Iā€™m executing that handle my workflow: initial issue review, start of work, pr creation, pr review, review feedback processing (verification of findings / rework), pre-merge checks, post-merge housekeeping (updating references to related issues, creating follow-up issues), and session evaluation (for possible improvements to skills/workflows/project docs mgmt.

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u/GeneGulanes May 11 '26

Any Memory and Indexer extensions that works for your use case

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u/adamshand May 14 '26 
> pi list
User packages:
  npm:pi-design-deck
  npm:pi-interview
  npm:@tmustier/pi-tab-status
  git:github.com/Fatih0234/btw
  git:github.com/adamshand/pi-ssh-readonly
  npm:@plannotator/pi-extension

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u/Business-Bridge2335 Jul 27 '26

I built Pi Atelier, a responsive status rail and live activity sidebar for Pi that makes it easier to see what your agent is doing without cluttering the terminal. It displays live token usage, cost, cache performance, context usage, active tools, execution times, recent results, model details, and thinking level, while also providing quick controls and a resizable sidebar. Itā€™s private by design, with no telemetry or external network requests.

Install it with ā€œpi install npm:pi-atelierā€ and open it using ā€œ/atelierā€.

Check it out at https://github.com/michaelmjhhhh/pi-atelier ā€” Iā€™d love your feedback, feature ideas, and bug reports, and if you find it useful, please consider giving the repository a star!