Pi

Pi is a TUI development environment that allows you to integrate artificial intelligence in your projects without relying on a graphical interface. Through the command terminal, this tool works as an independent command center on your console to orchestrate multiple language models and execute complex engineering, refactoring, or automation tasks.

Build your own AI workflow

Unlike other tools such as Cursor where you don't have as much technical freedom, with Pi, you can configure your work environment without any annoying autocompletions. Here, you will be building the workflow at your own pace, integrating packages such as AI, Agent, and TUI. This way, you can enjoy outstanding context management that, in most cases, will outperform the competition by allowing you to inject precise instructions through SYSTEM.md and AGENTS.md files customized to each project.

A good tree data structure

With Pi, you won't have to deal with a linear AI chat. This CLI wizard uses a tree data structure that's ideal for going back in a conversation without restarting the entire process. So, for example, you will be able to create a new branch to test an alternative solution without losing the original context, then simply merge the best option.

What I liked most about Pi and what could be improved

• What I liked most: being able to alternate between several LLMs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or certain local models. I also liked the option to write extensions in TypeScript to make the agent do exactly what I wanted.

• What I would improve: the configuration is pretty manual, so you'll have to set everything up from scratch unless you're willing to streamline processes by installing community packages.

Download Pi for Windows to enjoy this open-source AI agent creator, thanks to which you won't have to depend on other assistants created by third parties. However, you can also perform a native installation via npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent.