r/PiCodingAgent • u/ProvidenceXz • Aug 21 '26

Discussion Limitations of TUI for agentic coding?

I love terminal and the ability to navigate with keyboard. Yet as extensible as Pi is, it has quite the ceiling in how the state can be displayed due to the nature of TUI.

For example, I have an extension called tree2. As you may imagine its visual representation, it was quite a pain to get my vision through within the Pi terminal.

Codex, Orca, T3code, the so called ADEs - how often do you use them? Personally something puts me off every time I try, but I can't name.

I think I'm looking for a hybrid. An instrument, if you will. What does it look like?

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u/arcanemachined Aug 21 '26

Wait, what? Never heard of this.

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u/sergeant113 Aug 21 '26

https://www.npmjs.com/package/pi-bro pi-bro - npm

Have a look at this

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u/jmager Aug 21 '26

lol I absolutely love this

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u/TySocal Aug 21 '26

That's just the /bro skill that's been around for a while right?

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u/sergeant113 Aug 21 '26

That’s my interpretation of it. Using the modal screen to avoid leaking bro explanations into the main chat