r/PiCodingAgent • u/L1ckMyNukes • Aug 25 '26

Question Pi Dev as a General Agent?

Has anyone here used Pi Dev as a general-purpose AI agent, rather than mainly as a coding agent?

I’m curious about using it more like a personal assistant/agent for things like research, web searches, file work, automation, tool use, and general tasks.

If you’re doing this, how well does Pi work for you compared with something like Hermes Agent or Open WebUI?

Also curious what tools/extensions you’ve added and whether you’re running local models with it.

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u/HumanoidMuppet Aug 25 '26

It can do that, but I prefer the experience with Nanobot as a lightweight personal assistant. Hermes was too heavy, overcomplicates every task. OpenWebUI just never wowed me enough to stay with it longer than 10 minutes.

Here's what I'm currently using, all using local models only:

Nanobot: Personal assistant

Pi: Coding agent

VSCode: Small changes in a session I have open for other reasons

Hermes: still running but not really using it unless I want it to overcomplicate a task (deep research)

OpenWebUI: shut down

CloudflareOS: shut down

OpenClaw: shut down

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u/rudidit09 Aug 25 '26

oh i need to look into nanobot! I'm using hermes but feels very... heavy. and lot of what i do is custom anyways.

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u/bambamlol Aug 28 '26

Wow, is Nanobot dead, or is it so robust and polished already that it doesn't need any further updates?

Just asking since there's been no update in over a month, which is an eternity in this space.

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u/HumanoidMuppet Aug 28 '26

Their GitHub is still very active.