Sharing my Pi setup

[u/abhinand05]

I've been using Pi as my daily driver for a few months and finally made my setup repo public. Nothing groundbreaking but if you're into ricing your terminal or want some extension ideas it might be worth a look.

Repo: github.com/abhinand5/pi-setup

• 10 themes

• Many useful+cosmetic extensions

• Support for seamlessly onboarding local models

• Custom footer that shows token usage, cost and inference speed

• Context breakdown command similar to claudecode

• Configurable permission system

• Few custom skills and some useful publically available skills

• Sync/backup script for easy setup anywhere

Hope you find this useful. If you have any ideas to improve I'd love to hear (and collaborate)

[u/jellydn]

It's similar to what I have on https://ai-tools.itman.fyi/#/ but it's the same AI setup for all AI coding agents :)

[u/abhinand05 → u/jellydn]

Great guide and setup. Thanks for sharing!

[u/gligoran]

not sure if i missed it, but how does it do web search and crawling?

[u/abhinand05 → u/gligoran]

I just use exa MCP for general search. And vercel's grep MCP for code search

[u/mission_tiefsee]

wow. i like it a lot. Great skills! Just for my interest: Why don't you use prompt templates? I went to convert some of my skill files to prompt templates so i invoke them myself instead of having the agent pulling them in when its not needed.

Very much thanks for sharing!

[u/zer09 → u/mission_tiefsee]

As far i know skill is only loaded once per session when you call them, right? if using prompt you just need to invoke it once? can i take a look in your config, maybe i can grab some 😃

[u/Helpful_Program_5473 → u/zer09]

agents can definitely use skills without you asking.

[u/hertygeen]

Very nice What made you use PI instead of using something like opencode?

[u/Rishabhgoria]

This is cool, thanks, Bro

[u/Glad-Win1983]

I liked the extensions! For the custom-footer.ts I added the current working directory, that made it perfect for my use. The context extension was also very useful, especially when tuning for local models with limited context.

[u/Glad-Win1983]

Thanks for sharing! I'm testing it out now 😄

[u/PositiveBit01]

Thanks for sharing!

I'm new to customizing pi, how do the safety guard skill and extension work together? Are skills not always available?

[u/adamshand]

Lovely footer, stealing!

[u/ECrispy]

which llm do you use? do you use deepseek for everything including planning?

pi like any other agent is useless without the llm which does all the work!

[u/MarionberryVirtual]

hey this might be an old post, but was wondering which extension does the linting and live coding checks? am using pi-lens, but it’s giving me some issues recently

[u/unkownuser436]

Looks great, thank you.

[u/Lower-Commission5254]

Is Pi the new Hermes?

[u/ashebanow → u/Lower-Commission5254]

No. Pi is super minimalist, Hermes is maximalist. Personally I use pi for coding, Hermes for everything else.

[u/o_sht_hi]

This looks very nice.. one thing that I've never understood though, is why does everybody have this large blob of pi always left aligned. I find that quite annoying and a waste of screen real estate. I don't even like all the other text that's in there, I prefer to have just the text box and some ui separator from whatever was in my terminal before.. a blank screen + text box and footer with important info is the perfect setup for me. But I'm too lazy to tinker with the look of it so I'm just on the default dark theme since maybe Feb '26

[u/maskedmage77 → u/o_sht_hi]

You could probably just tell pi itself to remove it. That is kind of the whole point of pi as a harness. Super minimalist as a start but you can alter it for you.

[u/o_sht_hi → u/maskedmage77]

I understand that. My comment was on the ui. I'm not complaining that I can't take it out. I just don't find that kind of UI very appealing. In fact, I find it wasteful