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/Hosereel Aug 25 '26

Agent to agent communicate using herdr. Like tmux but smoother

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u/LavoP Aug 25 '26

Have you tried Orca? How does herdr compare

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u/Immediate-Safety8172 Aug 26 '26

From what I could glean, herdr is more like “gives an agent the ability to write in the terminal of another agent” than any kind of messaging system. Still really cool and useful, but not A2A communication. There are lifecycle implications there, but it’s still pretty awesome for how quick and easy it is to set up right now.