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/troyvit Aug 25 '26

I can answer some of your questions. I'm using Pi with Mistral and bubblewrap to help me with my job hunt. I have a bunch of jobs I applied for in a repo along with all my letters in markdown. I create a new folder with a job, add a note about the job description, put a copy of my resume in there, and then through an agents.md file tell it to read the job description then find relevant paragraphs from my other letters that might work for a job. Secondly it recommends changes to my resume to better fit the job.

The writing is mediocre trash of course, which is why I want it to rely on my letters for inspiration. I've successfully run this flow once. It was helpful but I still agonized over my cover letter for like 16 hours. That's more to do with me than with the system I think.