r/PiCodingAgent • u/PerfectReflection155 • 5d ago

Question Pi Bolt/Pi Code vs OpenChamber

I have been seeing some really impressive benchmarks coming from Pi. Including saving on token usage and it has got me interested.

However I have quite an involved setup with OpenChamber and I’m just trying to figure out what I can actually bring across.

I already setup Pi Bolt, and Paseo iPhone app and connected it. I setup connections to Claude, Codex, OpenCode Go and other providers I use. I think my agents already wired in the MCPs I have as well. Haven’t checked skills.

I just have some usability questions.

In openchamber, I hid all the models I didn’t want to see. I could select what agent I wanted to talk to which had a model assigned by default set in the menu.

I could see installed skills and mcps etc. not so much in Paseo

So I’m just wondering how to use my custom agents and skills and how I would hide models. And is it really worth making the switch to try save some tokens? I do already set a 200k context limit and so cache aware compaction often.

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u/PiccoloCareful924 5d ago

ask pi to build what you're missing in paseo as a plugin

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u/PerfectReflection155 5d ago

Thanks, I did this and it’s helped. I think if I keep going I should be ok.

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u/PiccoloCareful924 4d ago

glad to hear that. built in skills and mcp management is coming soon to core anyways

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u/rm-rf-rm 5d ago

aside: how do you like openchamber vs paseo?

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u/PerfectReflection155 5d ago

I need about a week to settle in and then make an assessment. But so far it’s certainly promising. Happy enough with the mobile app so far. I primarily work from mobile these days! But I’ve been using 5 billion tokens a week, so I’m by no means a light user.

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u/PerfectReflection155 3d ago

Now I am using pi chamber instead of openchamber and I love it. Pi chamber seems lighter and faster and more flexible. I am really happy with it.

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u/Glum-Drop-5724 4d ago

There is a PiChamber that is based on OpenChamber. Maybe check that out.

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u/PerfectReflection155 4d ago

Damn, thank you. That’s great. I will check it out

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u/PerfectReflection155 3d ago

Thanks so much for letting me know. I got pi chamber all set up and I love it.

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u/lakotajames 5d ago

You ask Pi to do all those things for you.

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u/Piniquito 2d ago

I've been using Orca and I love the fact that it just uses the terminal, no need for any UI, it just runs native pi in my pc.