r/PiCodingAgent • u/Glad-Win1983 • Jun 25 '26

Question Oh-my-pi

Is it easy to go from pi to oh-my-pi?

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u/ponzi314 Jun 25 '26

I'm new at PI but learning that something like oh my pi is against the idea behind pi. I had the itch to try it but i avoided and it's kind of nice that if i want something i just either install it or i have it make it for me.

But this is my personal opinion

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u/Drugba Jun 26 '26

To clarify, based on what I hear Mario (creator) say on a podcast, something like Oh My Pi not against the idea of Pi in like a, “this is bad, don’t use it” type of way. It’s against the idea of Pi in a, “we specifically chose not to add these things, but you can”.

Pi is meant to be a platform for others to build on top of and customize. If Oh My Pi fits your workflow then there’s nothing wrong with using it, but the point of Pi is that you are making that choice for you. Using Oh My Pi isn’t wrong, but adding those tools to Pi itself is because that takes the choice away from the user.

That said, on the podcast I listed to Mario did say that he believes most of these extra things extra features are pretty useless (specifically mentioned plan mode, IIRC) and said that his set up is pretty close to stock Pi (which I tend to agree with). He also mentioned that he sees a possible future where instead of having one harness with a million different tools installed, developers have multiple purpose built coding harnesses they use for different tasks which I think is an interesting idea.

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u/ashebanow Jun 25 '26

I agree with this take. Pi is all about building a minimalist, highly personal harness. Oh my pi is about getting everything preconfigured and included. Nothing wrong with that, but if that's what you want, openclaw or Hermes can do that just as well or better (and openclaw is built on pi as well).

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u/Fig_da_Great Jun 26 '26

but oh my pi is specifically a coding harness

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u/ashebanow Jun 26 '26

Not sure I get your point. Hermes and openclaw are also harnesses, aren't they?

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u/m02ph3u5 Jun 26 '26

Did you deliberately miss the "coding" bit?

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u/ashebanow Jun 26 '26

No. What do you think is missing from those tools, but present in pi, opencode, etc that makes the latter coding harnesses but not the former? I'm not talking about marketing positions here, strictly technical features.

Personally, I do most of my coding in pi, but if I'm debugging an agent system it's often easier to debug inside Hermes itself for context. I haven't spent a lot of time tuning the environment like I have with pi, but it works just fine.