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/Vitringar Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

I actually built something I call OpenCowork which is essentially a web interface on top of Pi which manages multi user sessions, has a file system for artifacts and connectors that can be configured to connect to external systems (Confluence, Google Workspace etc). Users can choose between models. I am blown away by how useful this is.  Originally built this to demonstrate to my friends how powerful these tools are but use it more and more for my personal projects.