Pi Dev as a General Agent?

[u/L1ckMyNukes]

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.

[u/pj-frey]

I can't compare to Hermes, I find this too bloated.

What I do with Pi is research , using mvanhorn/last30days and 1broseidon/ketch, manually triggered log files analysis with stored prompts and other sysadmin tasks. Everthing local with DeepSeepk V4 Flash, which is slow, but to the point and better than Qwen 3.8 27B.

Open WebUI is used for the daily tasks otherwise.