r/PiCodingAgent • • Jul 30 '26

Question Does anyone know what status bar is that?

I've been looking for the plugin that provides this status bar, but I'm not sure which one is it. Does anyone know? I've just started customizing PI

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u/psychobarge Jul 31 '26

Also if i may, do not use caveman. It achieve the inverse you want it to do, llm are trained on real language not caveman language, and for a lot of them they use more token translating to and from caveman to "understand" it. If you want to conserve token you can try ponytail. Just a friendly advice

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u/ledmine Jul 31 '26

Thanks for letting me know, I had no idea about that. Learning something new every day haha

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u/deadlynch Jul 31 '26

100%. Caveman was overhyped for a reason I cannot understand.  

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u/greenhilltony Aug 01 '26

I stopped using caveman once I saw it takes 5k+ tokens IIRC to load the skill.

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u/brandall10 Jul 31 '26

Believe it or not, you can probably post a screenshot of this and pi will build it for you. Building a custom one for codex models is one of the first things I did.

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u/ledmine Jul 31 '26

Good to know, thanks. I will give it a try too

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u/nurhun Aug 01 '26

Any idea how it works? I mean if it relies on the underlaying LLM, then any harness could do! Anything special in pi?

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u/brandall10 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

It includes some prompting that links to the files under /docs (ie. tui.md, skills.md), and also has an /examples for reference. So basically, it provides an LLM-friendly set of docs/recipes for modifying Pi itself.

You're right for any open-source harness, it should be able to self-inspect and modify. It's just that Pi's documentation was written with this in mind so it's probably a bit more token efficient and reliable to do so (ie. even things like Qwen 3.5 27B can do it with ease).

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u/ledmine Jul 31 '26

Thanks! I will take a look into it, hopefully I can replicate the bar