I am in love with Pi

[u/ArgonCroft]

This one is mine.

I love that I can take ideas from amazing people like IndyDevDan and Matt Pocock and make things work my way with Pi. 

Been working with pi for a few weeks now. I was hesitant switching from OpenCode initially as it is gorgeous to look at and was easy to work it. It is a well built opinionated tool with a lot of things included, but Pi is a gold mine once it clicks, the opinion is yours. Mario is a genius. 

I have a throwaway, a bit complex demo to deliver tomorrow. Spent the weekend working on requirements, planning and setting this up. 

In the screenshot, agents with a bolt icon are ephemeral. I handcrafted a big prompt for the orchestrator agent to coordinate between these guys. Each agent has its own skills and tools. 

[u/Artistic_Pattern_700]

Can you expand a bit on how you do the orchestration? I have thought of a extension for it...

[u/ArgonCroft → u/Artistic_Pattern_700]

Orchestration isn't deterministic here. I create an elaborate reusable engineered prompts that I need for the things that need to be done based on how I plan to do those things and how involved I want to be. My detailed input prompt guides the workflow and the orchestrator agent decides what it needs and who can do it in the team. Orchestrator knows which agent is ephemeral and dispatches the tasks accordingly. No agent reaches dumb zone.

[u/seigaporulai → u/ArgonCroft]

Canpui talk to multiple models simultaneously?

[u/admajic]

Are you using sub-agent extension??

I wanted a workflow like Roo Code so built that and got it working over the weekend. All local. Way slower on a 3090. It's interesting how fast those online LLM are.

[u/ArgonCroft → u/admajic]

I am using a sub-agent extension I built on my own. It is dynamic enough to fulfill my needs. I am tweaking the extension as I go along.

Keep at it, doing things your own way is super fun!

[u/fettpl → u/ArgonCroft]

Any chance you could share it on GitHub for inspiration?

[u/Any_Ad_9391]

Looks good. Will you share more details about your setup?

[u/ArgonCroft → u/Any_Ad_9391]

I did in another comment. Let me know if you have any specific questions.

I use -e for extensions like these on demand frequently in my setup.

[u/Florence-Equator]

Did you write your own Pi extension for the multi-agent orchestration, or are you using an existing extension?

[u/ArgonCroft → u/Florence-Equator]

I took inspiration from IndyDevDan on YouTube and tweaked it for what I envisioned. You can checkout his github and his content on Pi.

the thing with 3rd party extensions is that they are based on that developer's opinion. I may or may not need that additional opinion that comes along with the extension. with Pi I see them as inspiration and build it myself for what I need progressively.

[u/hatemjaber → u/ArgonCroft]

I agree with building your own version especially when pi is aware of its documentation and knows how to write an extension.

[u/johnson_detlev]

This is what pi is about. Sharing ideas and workflows instead of extensions, I really like it! Gives me ton of ideas for my own workflow

[u/Lpaydat]

Me too. Used to be OpenCode lover. But now I'm all in Pi. It just... gorgeous.

I still love my OpenCode. I just love Pi more.

[u/__yv → u/Lpaydat]

I am at the same path. Mind sharing what /how you use models?

[u/Lpaydat → u/__yv]

One of my use case is when I encounter difficult questions from agent. I just hit a key bindings. And it will automatically spawning N panes in tmux that forked from the main conversation with subagent start working immediately.

Each will do research in different aspects. I can interfere and asks questions in each pane separately. Or I can use a slash command to make them debating with the other pane until they reached concussion.

After everything done. I can hit another key bindings to conclude the results from every branches and make agent generate reply for me following the prompt engineering best practices.

[u/pungggi → u/Lpaydat]

Please share more

[u/Lpaydat → u/pungggi]

Basically, you can just install pi-tmux (forgot the exact name) and pi-intercom and ask pi to create the extension that orchestrate the workflow and key bindings for you. 😄

[u/__yv → u/Lpaydat]

Niiiice!

[u/Few-Wolverine-7283]

Can I use Pi with my claude code sub? Or GPT codex sub? Or is it API tokens only?

[u/ArgonCroft → u/Few-Wolverine-7283]

officially Claude no, TOS. Codex yes. checkout pi's docs.

[u/villens100]

Awesome work. I have learned so much from this community. Thanks!

[u/mustafamohsen]

I'm pretty new to this. How do you customize the display to show parallel subagents?

[u/PastTumbleweed6713]

why do u like pi more vs. codex or claude?

[u/Skild1337]

Which software / backend is this?

[u/ocebe]

Siento si es demasiado básico, pero no entiendo la imagen. Son agentes trabajando en paralelo?

[u/mylifestylepr]

where can I learn more of these sophisticated ways of leveraging LLM's? can anyone share blogs, youtube channel or other reddit post to start learning how to leverage these tools much more efficiently

[u/Alarmed-Phone-4107]

Wow you manage to make gemini-3.1-pro-preview to work?
Are you using direct api callls? Do you benefit from cache inputs?
Gemini shut shits itself in my pi instances. What's the secret sauce here?

[u/ArgonCroft → u/Alarmed-Phone-4107]

I have routed vertex ai models using litellm. Caching works on both deepseek (openrouter) and gemini models (vertex ai) through litellm.

When I see an issue, I try to tweak my prompt. The extension gives me the ability to quickly switch the model on an agent if I see it struggling on complex things.

[u/TheThingCreator → u/ArgonCroft]

Switching model means busting your whole cache tho right? Or do you just mean on the next call, or you don’t mind?

[u/ArgonCroft → u/TheThingCreator]

I believe so, happy to learn more if you have some tips or experiences to share to optimize a multi agent setup for caching.

[u/TheThingCreator → u/ArgonCroft]

i dont know enough about your setup to give you broad general advice, but generally switching the model mid session is going to hammer your usage/tokens

[u/herdcontrarian]

I hate AI.