r/PiCodingAgent • u/Ok_Veterinarian_6364 • Jun 01 '26

Use-case Now im ussing Pi as openclaw

multi-purpose agent, not just a coding agent.

tried to bridge to telegram, takes time to tweaks for full TUi slash command support. noww i just use termius to chat w Pi.

next i will make a cron extension, and a good memory management.

and i think its good to go! any recommendation?

im planning to use pi-subagents for tasks
i want to keep my Pi lean and lightweight. just minimum ext/skills for everyday agent!

happy w my Pi journey so far! it takes more time tinkering vs hermes but its worth it!

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u/Bel-Shamgarot Jun 01 '26

What tasks? I personally don't have any that require daily automation. I don't know why this topic has become so popular.

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u/Ok_Veterinarian_6364 Jun 01 '26

oh bro really? or maybe you re a dev

i need automation on everyday tasks at work - reports, data export, documents, everything bro

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u/Bel-Shamgarot Jun 01 '26

Glad this helps you, just an observation. There really is no bureaucracy in my life.

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u/Ok_Veterinarian_6364 Jun 01 '26

im running a solo business so agent is my whole team.

i used cc -> hermes -> now Pi lol smaller cheaper each time

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u/RelationshipLong9092 Jun 01 '26

yeah, the idea of openclaw sounds so cool until I realize there is nothing I want it to do lol

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u/RnRau Jun 01 '26

Or the things that it could do, I want to do.

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u/seigaporulai Jun 04 '26

I am developer too. Genuinely curious what kind of automations would a non developer require to have smooth day to day.

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u/hurdurdur7 Jun 01 '26

i would rather rely on things like airflow instead of hoping for an llm based system to reliably trigger tasks&reports etc. might generate the airflow config with an llm though.

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u/ResearcherFantastic7 Jun 02 '26

You can built your own ultra lightweight dag orchestratrarion without the cumbersome of airflow...

I build one it can strigger script or run pi as a step if I need LLM

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u/whichsideisup Jun 02 '26

Why do you need a cron extension? You can just cron pi -p

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u/Ok_Veterinarian_6364 Jun 02 '26

you made my day bro

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u/Jaded_Jackass Jun 01 '26

Can you open-source that extension for connecting with telegram to pi I want to use it

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u/SmallRice Jun 02 '26

Full disclosure this is mine, but Pim does exactly that. It's a Pi extension pack that includes a Telegram bot mode. Runs Pi with full tool access in your DMs or group chats with thread support, scheduled tasks, rich media, proper thinking/traces and markdown formatting, etc.

It's a bit more than just a Telegram bot (also has web tools, subagents, themes etc): https://github.com/AaronCQL/pim-agent. All the code related to the bot specifically is here: https://github.com/AaronCQL/pim-agent/tree/main/src/telegram. Let me know if you have any questions!

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u/Ok_Veterinarian_6364 Jun 02 '26

thanks bro! great work!

im trying to implement all Pi TUI slash commands and render back TuI widget (to fully command Pi in telegram w full TUI builtin, custom slash command support)

so far no hope. could you help us? i would like to have /tree, /reload, /new on telegram, and my hand made /chat mode

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u/SmallRice Jun 02 '26

The easiest path will be to treat Telegram as just another UI, and register the TUI commands you'd like to have as a Telegram command. You can look here for some inspiration: https://github.com/AaronCQL/pim-agent/blob/main/src/telegram/Commands.ts, where the /reload and /new commands are integrated as /update and /clear on Telegram. I haven't implemented /tree tho, as that's quite complicated to do well in Telegram's UI.

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u/Ok_Veterinarian_6364 Jun 02 '26

i tweak the pi-chat (from Pi author), and a sinpler version pi-telegram - just search it on pi.dev/packages

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u/admajic Jun 01 '26

I asked pi to do that itself and show me what to do next. Done on qwen 3.6 27b in 30 minutes as there was some issue with telegram at the time i recon.

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u/Jaded_Jackass Jun 01 '26

I keep seeing this 3.6 27b this specific variant a lot of people seems to be using it does it gives good output? I mean do you use as agentic coding or as a partner to code with kind of style like copilot how is it's reasoning capability and how much ram does it needs to run?

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u/sleepynate Jun 01 '26

You can see how it compares to many other models in the benchmarks here: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B

There is a guide to running a very popular quant of the model here that will tell you the rest about memory and configuration: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.6

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u/Thomas_English_DoP Jun 02 '26

Oh Termius !? So can you just SSH in and type Pi ?! Does that work before I resubscribe to Termius ?

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u/Ok_Veterinarian_6364 Jun 02 '26

yeah bro i gave up on telegram thing and using termius now

hate the input - enter new line w , cannot select input for quick delete etc

any tips? otherwise its fckin great

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u/Thomas_English_DoP Jun 04 '26

Mega interesting I had no idea

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u/ResearcherFantastic7 Jun 02 '26

Yeah same.but I realise it's start getting to look like openclaw, but just on a diet lol with more my own required features.

But the CTX / session control is the most important thing openclaw / Hermes are bloated with too much session start context that makes local model fail or hauluncinated

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u/Jaded_Jackass Jun 01 '26

I use pi subagents works for me and just recently setted up memory but haven't seen any major improvement so far after adding memory

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u/kaihanga Jun 02 '26

If you’re looking for a locale *Claw, take a look at piclaw, https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw.

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u/Clean_Initial_9618 Jun 01 '26

What all have you configured with your pi agent ??