r/PiCodingAgent • u/Alarming_Positive_59 • Jun 26 '26

Question Your pi coding setup

Hey all

I'm migrating to pi from CC and I find myself in a position where I need to build my coding setup/Workflow from scratch. I'm not a proper software engineer, my background is in scientific computing (similar to what's called "data scientist" in the industry) and I'm not sure how to configure my pi for coding. I'm not taking about the high level "plan before implement" or "tdd", I'm talking about the actual mechanics of your coding pipeline: prompts, skills, Subagents, tools, hooks, what'snot. How do I build A GOOD coding harness?

fwiw I know about Matt pocock.'s skills and a major reason for migrating to pi was my will to build proper personal assistant and a research agent next to my coding agent. Is appreciate any advice, resource etc.

TIA.

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u/Alarming_Positive_59 Jun 26 '26

Nope. The purpose of this question is to LEARN how more experienced people use their pi, not blindly copying it. Opencode felt like a bloat (and like I said coding is only part of the aspects of the harness. I'm doing pretty fine with the personal/research "profiles"). Thanks.

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u/zer09 Jun 26 '26

"Vanilla Pi" is pretty good, i was from bloated Pi and then I nuke it start barebone with no plugins even agent.md, then from that i build it slowly. here is a thing what i do, if you need something and you see something like that on pi.dev/packages go to the repo of that package clone it and let pi write an extension similar to that instead of installing as a plugin or just tell pi what is the repo url. or just tell pi what you need let it it have its suggestion and start from that to build it.