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Pi Agent Helper

A routing-style skill for installing, configuring, and building on Pi, the minimal terminal coding harness.

Dev & CodingAdvanced★ 33,030⑂ 3,248AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

  • Guides installation of the Pi CLI (@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent), authentication, and configuration of providers, models, settings, and PI_* environment variables.
  • Provides a "First Decision" table that maps any user intent to the exact reference doc to read (usage, sessions, security, TUI, packages, and ~30 more).
  • Gives clear build-on-Pi defaults: SDK for Node/TypeScript apps needing type safety and in-process tools, RPC mode (pi --mode rpc --no-session) for other languages or process isolation, JSON mode for one-shot pipelines.
  • Covers authoring extensions, skills, prompt templates, themes, and packages, plus ecosystem packages pi-subagents, pi-mcp-adapter, pi-interview, and pi-web-access.
  • States safety defaults up front: Pi is not sandboxed, treat project-local .pi resources as code, keep secrets in env vars or ~/.pi/agent/auth.json.

Who it's for

  • Developers adopting Pi as their daily terminal coding agent.
  • Engineers embedding an agent in a Node/TypeScript app or calling it from another language over RPC.
  • Authors of Pi extensions, packages, and themes who share them across a team.

Examples

  1. "Install Pi and get me to a first run with my Anthropic key" → global npm install plus the provider auth flow.
  2. "Call Pi from my Go service" → RPC mode with the JSONL protocol caveat (split on \n, don't use Node readline).
  3. "Fan out work to parallel subagents" → pi install npm:pi-subagents and the orchestration reference.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/pi-agent folder from the GitHub repo K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/pi-agent/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/pi-agent ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal and go to a working directory.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the whole skill folder so the reference files come along: cp -r scientific-agent-skills/skills/pi-agent ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify with ls ~/.claude/skills/pi-agent — you should see SKILL.md and references/.
  6. Restart Claude Code and ask something like "how do I install and configure Pi?" to trigger the skill.
  7. Using Pi itself requires Node.js/npm; check with node -v before installing the CLI.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT