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News
Release notes and community updates from the Pi ecosystem.
- Aug 28, 2026releasepi v0.84.4: Terminal capability overrides, RPC clear_queue, smarter compaction timing
Pi v0.84.4 adds terminal capability overrides for hyperlinks, images, and truecolor, ui_prompt_start/ui_prompt_end extension events, RPC clear_queue, Ctrl+X fullscreen copy controls, experimental DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision, and compaction fixes.
- Aug 24, 2026releasepi v0.84.3: Windows PowerShell tool, atomic managed updates, /thinking selector
Pi v0.84.3 adds an optional native PowerShell tool for Windows, atomically activated managed updates via pi update, a searchable /thinking selector with Ctrl+S persistence, session_compact_failed extension events, and faster CLI startup.
- Aug 23, 2026communitydsh-pi-agent: run pi's loop inside DeepSeek Harness's web UI via --mode rpc
On 2026-08-23, Micheleww published dsh-pi-agent in pi's Discussions — a TypeScript plugin that registers an AgentFactory on DeepSeek Harness's ctx.agents, spawning a headless pi --mode rpc child over JSONL on stdio so DSH's web UI, sessions, hooks, and presets keep working while the model sees pi's ~300-token prompt and four tools.
- Aug 21, 2026communityJetBrains incubator ThinkRail: a Worktree IDE built on pi
On 2026-08-21, JetBrains incubator project ThinkRail was announced in pi's Discussions: a thin host that runs the pi coding agent in-process and bridges it to a Monaco-based, mobile-first Worktree IDE built around git worktrees and concurrent chat sessions.
- Aug 16, 2026communityBilibili walkthrough: a Chinese-language deep dive on the pi coding agent
On 2026-08-16, the Chinese creator 技术爬爬虾 (mid 316183842) published a 44-minute Bilibili video titled 'Pi 大道至简' that walks through pi's minimal four-tool design, benchmark results against Codex and Claude Code, and the extension ecosystem. As of 2026-08-18 it has 104,572 views and 12,947 favorites.
- Aug 15, 2026communitypi-dsh-minimal: a community extension that pins DeepSeek V4 to the official DSH surface
On 2026-08-15, Averyyy announced pi-dsh-minimal in Pi Discussion #8179: a pi extension that anchors DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4 Flash to DeepSeek Harness's official minimal tool schema on the first request, then restores pi's normal tools. The author measured 69 of 113 tasks solved on DeepSWE v1.1 (61.1%).
- Aug 14, 2026releasepi v0.84.2: Fullscreen transcript search, configurable default tools, per-run themes
Pi v0.84.2 adds fullscreen transcript search via Ctrl+Shift+F, a defaultTools setting for startup built-in tools globally or per project, experimental JSON-schema constrained sampling for core tools, and per-run themes with --use-theme.
- Aug 14, 2026communitypi2dsh: a Pi-to-DSH bridge that runs Pi extensions inside DeepSeek Harness
weijiafu14 published pi2dsh 0.2.0 on npm on 2026-08-14: an MIT-licensed bridge that lets DeepSeek Harness (DSH) run unmodified Pi extensions as native plugins, with 32 of the top-50 Pi packages tested working and 39 of 50 mountable today.
- Aug 12, 2026communitypi fix: sendCustomMessage with triggerTurn: false no longer starts a new turn
Pull request #8022, merged on August 12, 2026 by external contributor cristinaponcela, fixes a bug where sendCustomMessage({triggerTurn:false}) from an agent_end handler still started a new turn because messages were routed through the streaming agent.steer() path while isStreaming was true.
- Aug 11, 2026communitypi subagent extension now inherits the current session's model and thinking level
Pull request #7897, authored by Dustin Spicuzza (virtuald) and merged by Mario Zechner (badlogic) on August 11, 2026, updates pi's bundled subagent extension so spawned subagents inherit the calling session's model and thinking level.
- Aug 10, 2026communityFirst external PR merged through pi's auto-close approval workflow
External contributor distributedlock's pull request #7887, fixing a missing trailing newline after the "Current working directory" line in pi's generated system prompt, was reopened and merged by maintainer badlogic (Mario Zechner) on August 10, 2026, as one of the earliest external merges through pi's auto-close approval workflow in the public PR record.
- Aug 7, 2026releasepi v0.84.1: Qwen Token Plan Individual, pi auth check, terminating blocked tool calls
Pi v0.84.1 adds the Qwen Token Plan Individual provider, a pi auth check command for verifying provider or model credentials, finer fullscreen text selection, and lets extension tool_call handlers terminate blocked batches without another model call.
- Aug 6, 2026releasepi v0.84.0: fullscreen TUI mode, Mermaid and LaTeX rendering, AGENTS.override.md
Pi v0.84.0 introduces a fullscreen TUI with sticky editor and draggable scrollbars, Mermaid and Unicode math rendering, per-directory AGENTS.override.md context files, a built-in Baseten provider, and breaking changes to streaming transforms and the v2 session API.
- Jul 29, 2026releasepi v0.83.0: credential export, headless OpenRouter login, Opus 5 on Copilot
pi v0.83.0 adds credential export commands for external clients, headless OpenRouter sign-in for SSH over PKCE, Claude Opus 5 via GitHub Copilot, and a TypeBox breaking change for extension authors.
- Jul 25, 2026releasepi v0.82.1 adds Claude Opus 5 support
pi v0.82.1 brings Claude Opus 5 to Anthropic and Amazon Bedrock with adaptive thinking, bearer-token auth for Anthropic-compatible gateways via ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN, and faster model catalog refreshes.
- Jul 24, 2026releasepi v0.82.0: constrained tool sampling and one-command provider sign-in
pi v0.82.0 adds constrained sampling for tool calls with strict JSON Schema and OpenAI Lark grammars, /login support for OpenRouter and Kimi Code, and session-aware streaming bash integrations.
- Jul 21, 2026releasepi v0.81.0: local model management with llama.cpp
pi v0.81.0 lets pi search, download, load, and unload Hugging Face models through a llama.cpp router, and opens full provider registration to extensions via the pi-ai package.
- Jul 16, 2026releasepi v0.80.8: unified model runtime, xAI OAuth, and Grok 4.5
pi v0.80.8 introduces the ModelRuntime layer for provider configuration and authentication, live model catalog refresh, and xAI device-code sign-in with Grok 4.5 support across built-in providers.
- Apr 8, 2026communitypi joins Earendil: Mario Zechner moves the project to a company home
In an April 8 blog post titled "I've sold out", pi creator Mario Zechner announced he is joining Earendil, a Vienna-based AI company co-founded by Armin Ronacher, and bringing the pi project with him under MIT license.
- Apr 5, 2026communitypi-share-hf: publish your agent sessions to a public dataset
Mario Zechner released pi-share-hf, a CLI pipeline that redacts and reviews pi session files before uploading them as a Hugging Face dataset; he publishes his own sessions in the badlogicgames/pi-mono dataset.
- Jan 31, 2026communityOpenClaw's core runtime is pi
Armin Ronacher's January 31 post "Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw" publicly detailed that the OpenClaw agent runs on Mario Zechner's pi as its minimal coding engine.