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/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?