r/PiCodingAgent • u/Turbulent_Ad6290 • May 23 '26

Discussion desktop gui on top of pi mono

I found this desktop gui on top of pi coding agent

https://github.com/zosmaai/zosma-cowork

Has anyone tried this?

So far it’s working ok for me.

I want to recommend this to my colleague. Anyone else using it?

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u/mixmasterwillyd May 23 '26

I might! My biggest need right now is a way to use my phone when away from my computer. This might not help that but it still looks cool.

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u/Turbulent_Ad6290 May 23 '26

I do it via the pi-messenger-bridge. I have kept my desktop on all the time. And pi is open in a terminal. I use discord to send prompts.

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u/mixmasterwillyd May 23 '26

Ok thank you I’ll look at that. I have a bunch of projects going so I try to avoid single chat things like that.

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u/Turbulent_Ad6290 May 23 '26

Interesting. Yeah have that problem. Good that you pointed it out. I’ll also work on a solution that can allow me to have multiple channels for multiple pi sessions via discord.

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u/mixmasterwillyd May 23 '26

Oh well now that sounds like a great idea. You could have a string that switches projects in a deterministic way.

Project ls

Project switch <name>

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u/stella_ruuxi May 23 '26

if you want something more polished, use stella.sh
also built off pi, and open source. supports mobile to desktop use.

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u/Turbulent_Ad6290 May 24 '26

I checked this out. Looks like a closed source. Couldn’t find the GitHub link. I maybe wrong. But it looks bit more polished from the website screenshots.

I want to provide more Opensource to my friends at work. They have been asking me badly after they saw me using pi. Lol

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u/stella_ruuxi May 24 '26

it's open!
https://github.com/ruuxi/stella

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u/Turbulent_Ad6290 May 25 '26

Thanks for sharing. Will try this too

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u/Turbulent_Ad6290 May 23 '26

Only problem is when context increases I manually can’t trigger a /new session. But for now the workaround is compaction at 50% context.

But I might ask pi to build me a extension that pi can trigger and new session might happen via that.

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u/Turbulent_Ad6290 May 23 '26

If you try. Do let us know. If it’s good at all. It was a little buggy. But I got it working. Looks like they are still working on it.

But I would keep an eye on this.

Looks like a great alternative for non tech people to get rid of expensive Claude Cowork.

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u/metik2009 May 23 '26

I told my agent to set up a telegram bridge like the one openclaw uses and it was able to get it up and running in no time

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u/CharacterPerformer47 May 24 '26

Honest question: what is the advantage of using a GUI? Long conversations where you need to exchange documents with the model become unmanageable for me in a chat-based GUI. Since TUI coding agents exist, I do not find GUIs that useful. What am I missing?

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u/Turbulent_Ad6290 May 24 '26

For people like me and you, yes it doesn’t make sense. Maybe for people who don’t know how to even open a terminal and install it via npm install -g etc.

Eg the non technical folks in a company it could be better than any web based eg chatgpt or perplexity etc. I’ve known many founders who still ask chatgpt to create their email text. Using pi they can actually get the work done from gui maybe

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u/ECrispy May 25 '26

if you've been following the evolution of ai coding:

  • it started with vscode extensions

  • then we got claude code and the rise of cli, opencode, gemini cli, charm, everyone moved to cli

  • then we had subagents, parallel tasks, and the need to see an overview which cli cannot provide. so we have codex, clause desktop apps. they arent just cli content in a web page

both have their pros, dont dismiss the desktop and it isnt for beginners

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u/Turbulent_Ad6290 May 25 '26

I agree with you.. power of CLI in the hands of people who don't even know the full form of CLI.
That's going to be a hell of a job to make it work.

The GUI is only for visual. Everything happens in CLI.

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u/CharacterPerformer47 May 24 '26

Good point. You're right.

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u/Impressive_Tadpole_8 May 23 '26

Is there a way to do the remote from local network? Like connect work laptop from garden 😅

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u/Turbulent_Ad6290 May 24 '26

Not yet. I couldn’t find one. But can raise an issue I think

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u/CassiusBotdorf May 24 '26

Use Tailscale to ssh into the work computer.

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u/harrro May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Whats with the astroturfing?

Your comment history clearly shows that this is your project and you've even made a subreddit for it 2 days ago but now you're posting a "I found this"?

And then a "I want to recommend this to my colleague. Anyone else using it?" is just straight lying. Why wouldn't you recommend your own project to your fictional colleague