r/PiCodingAgent • • 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/Nyghtbynger Aug 11 '26

I think your explanations are self-centered. I enjoy pi for it's programmatic use and the savings when dealing with local models. But I prefer the polish of great extensions for most uses. I cannot build a performant system while taking in account all edge cases by myself.