Releases and community updates from the Pi coding agent ecosystem.https://piagent.fyi/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-84-4-terminal-capability-overrides/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-84-4-terminal-capability-overrides/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.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-84-3-powershell-tool-atomic-updates/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-84-3-powershell-tool-atomic-updates/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.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/dsh-pi-agent-rpc-bridge/https://piagent.fyi/news/dsh-pi-agent-rpc-bridge/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.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/thinkrail-jetbrains-pi-ide/https://piagent.fyi/news/thinkrail-jetbrains-pi-ide/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.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/jishupaopaxia-bilibili-pi-guide/https://piagent.fyi/news/jishupaopaxia-bilibili-pi-guide/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.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi-dsh-minimal-extension/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-dsh-minimal-extension/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%).Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-84-2-fullscreen-search-default-tools/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-84-2-fullscreen-search-default-tools/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.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi2dsh-deepseek-harness/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi2dsh-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.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pr-8022-trigger-turn-false/https://piagent.fyi/news/pr-8022-trigger-turn-false/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.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pr-7897-subagent-inherits-config/https://piagent.fyi/news/pr-7897-subagent-inherits-config/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.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/distributedlock-first-pr-merged/https://piagent.fyi/news/distributedlock-first-pr-merged/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.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-84-1-qwen-token-plan-individual/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-84-1-qwen-token-plan-individual/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.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-84-0-fullscreen-tui/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-84-0-fullscreen-tui/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.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-83-0-credential-export/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-83-0-credential-export/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.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-82-1-claude-opus-5/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-82-1-claude-opus-5/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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-82-0-constrained-sampling/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-82-0-constrained-sampling/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.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-81-0-llama-cpp-local-models/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-81-0-llama-cpp-local-models/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.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-80-8-model-runtime/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-0-80-8-model-runtime/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.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi-joins-earendil/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-joins-earendil/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.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/pi-share-hf-session-dataset/https://piagent.fyi/news/pi-share-hf-session-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.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://piagent.fyi/news/openclaw-built-on-pi/https://piagent.fyi/news/openclaw-built-on-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.Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT