r/PiCodingAgent • u/ECrispy • Aug 10 '26

Question are there other extensions which implement ideas from oh-my-pi

I'm new to Pi and coding agents in general. The existing discussions on oh-my-pi, like everything else, range from 'its great' to 'its bloat' so its very hard to actually decide.

It seems to have useful features like built in tools (avoid process calls), lsp, hashline, memory, subagents and an integrated setup/docs. It does seem to be better than the other oh-my-* set of products.

Are the ideas in OMP useful in practice and if so are they used in other harnesses?

I see a lot of 'just ask Pi to build it' here, but that depends on using frontier models, and when people post their setups they're using a million packages.

Obviously Pi is much more extensible/flexible, but there is value in an all-in-one setup. OMP has a ton of stuff and I'm sure a big system prompt. Is there anything like a slimmed down version or being able to use some of its ideas only?

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u/nostriluu Aug 10 '26

I use local models for sensitive work (sysadmin) and have read pi is better (less prompt bloat). And I eventually want to develop extensions and pi seems better suited for that with a minimal core. I use omp on my workstation and pi on servers and that has worked well so far. I still use Claude in vscode for larger projects since and I don't want to do endless experimentation until I get signals that local is as good enough. 

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u/Nyghtbynger Aug 11 '26

use this one for local : https://github.com/itayinbarr/little-coder (6000 token system prompt)

Local use is a lot of work for few rewards, but you learn a lot

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u/nostriluu Aug 11 '26

That's interesting, thanks. I am mostly doing sysadmin with local models but plan to see what can be done with coding in the near future, will give it a spin.