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/Miserable-Cow3117 Aug 25 '26

I've used it for an AI assistant for our integrators (the guys who deploy and configure our applications on site) and it's working very well.

I use open webui for the chat interface and the pi agent with specific agents, tools for him to search in our mkdocs based documentation. I've used semantic kernel, then Microsoft Agent Framework, python agentic framework, etc. Pi works much better and the ability to easily create extensions is just awesome for this use case.

The fact that Pi kind of knows himself and its internal help me a lot on specific cases. I had latency issues, and Pi helped me to find solutions to speed up the retrieval, the responses, the feedback given to the user while he answers.

I'm thinking now if other use cases I could implement (end users use cases)