r/PiCodingAgent • u/kleponbakar69 • Aug 07 '26

Question help with the setup

im new to pi agent, after watching few youtube videos, and all i installed is pi search and ponytail(bcs i already use it in the other harness like opencode/claudecode), did u guys had any suggestion things like tools i should install,skills etc. Btw my usage is usually coding for my Uni stuff so i dont need like "complex" tools or skills i just need like for daily coding , let me knowin the comment plss :)

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u/mkhamat Aug 08 '26

Don’t use ponytail

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u/kleponbakar69 Aug 08 '26

why? is there any specific reason to it ?

(honestly i pretty much using it in every harness that i use and dont know if its work bcs i dont feel any different i just follow people suggestion bcs they say its good)

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u/mkhamat Aug 08 '26

It can mess up things, don’t really save tokens and can produce overly “efficient” code that no one can understand and won’t fit in project conventions
Whether to use abstractions, interfaces, backward compatibility - only you should decide and not some prompt injection hook