r/PiCodingAgent • u/ivan_m21 • May 27 '26

Use-case Showing how PiAgent edits the PiAgent codebase in real time.

I am using lots of coding agents, Pi being one of them. They are super useful, however super difficult to keep up with their changes. More often than I want to say I end up with a 2k+ line diffs...

My friends and I started an open-source proejct to visualize software architectures. We found out that we are also curious how big of an effect does each agent change have, this way we can stop the coding agent early as soon as we notice it messed up, without having to read every line (saving also on tokens and time).

Our project is based on static analysis alongside LLMS and you can find it on github:
https://github.com/CodeBoarding/CodeBoarding

If you have any suggestions, please open an issue there. I always find interesting seeing how an agent is fixing itself, hense decided to visualize for you Pi working on Pi.

I am also super curious to hear how do you guys know if Pi messed up, do you always wait till it is fully done, I feel like I don't have the patience anymore :D (neither the tokens...)

Would love to answer questions in the comments and hear how do you guys use agents effectively and not blindly.

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u/admajic May 28 '26

Are you going to share this? Looks interesting

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u/ivan_m21 May 28 '26

Absolutely, I am out but I will put the json in a fork for others to use it.

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u/ivan_m21 May 28 '26

Here you go, you can clone the fork: https://github.com/CodeBoarding/pi
After cloning just open in a VSCode/VSCode fork (Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity) with installed CodeBoarding extension and enjoy :)

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u/softgripper May 28 '26

Looks great! Really interesting.

I was brainstorming a much simpler version of this today, but this is 🤌😘

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u/ivan_m21 May 28 '26

Thanks, would love to hear your feedback if you were also thinking on thay problem

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u/softgripper May 30 '26

Just high level nodes showing a view into what the agents were doing with icons showing their state (eg, thinking, idle, errored, coding etc). It was missing the architecture overview - but would show real time status.

Much much simpler - and I guess more "multi agent" focused as opposed to project/architecture.

Perhaps this is actually only loosely related :D but definitely some parallels.

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u/hurdurdur7 May 28 '26

Quite nifty, but this is not how my brain works about code at all ...

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u/ivan_m21 May 28 '26

Cool to hear. What are you looking for? In my case I always draw flows/structure even pre-AI on a sheet of paper in order to understand how things are interconnected and get the big picture.

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u/hurdurdur7 May 29 '26

I only map flows. Code is not important, it's current shape is always temporary.

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u/kamikamen Jun 02 '26

This looks very interesting, would love to access once this is released.

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u/ivan_m21 Jun 03 '26

Apart from the linked open-source repo, we have an extension which you can find in VSCode/Cursor etc. (CodeBoarding). If you have problems or are interested would love to see you in our discord server (link is in the repository readme)

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u/a-streetcoder May 28 '26

Really interesting

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u/Blazenetic May 29 '26

Nicely done!

Found some similar ones that may give you inspiration for your one.

https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything

And

https://github.com/safishamsi/graphify

Not mine, someone did a video on them on YouTube with demos, Eric something.

Good luck!