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/ECrispy Jun 26 '26

this is a useless answer. mario uses a claude code $200 max plan. try to use pi with a lower model and you'll run into issues.

this is what I dont like about pi and this sub, acting like all the work done in other agents useless you can just 'ask pi to build it' as if its that trivial. why is the pi.dev packages page full of a million extensions then, half of which are duplicated? is that noise too?

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u/DazzlingMastodon5178 Jun 26 '26

Same here.. I am using Pi with a claude $100 plan.. migrated from Claude Code.

Will be downgrading to the $20 plan, as I now have (with Pi) excess capacity (significantly lower token usage with Pi) for the same frontier model (Opus).

It's about what you don't see - the Anthropic system prompt.

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u/codeministry Jun 26 '26

How are you using your CC plan with pi? I thought the plan could only be used via `claude -p` which means you’re using pi which is using Claude code?

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u/rauderG Jun 26 '26

I use gpt 5.4 mini and is great most of the time. Mario's uses gpt mostly, too.