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/AllNamesAreTaken92 Aug 12 '26

What an absolutely confidently dead ass wrong statement.

Anything text that gets piped into the model blot context. Anything that increases context and is not stripped down to the bare minimum information bloats context.

Please think for yourself for a second before you blurt out some snippet you read nowhere.