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How a one-developer protest against bloated coding harnesses became a 95,000-star agent toolkit: pi's five-package architecture, branching JSONL session trees, four run modes, and the philosophy that refuses to build sub-agents, plan mode, or MCP.
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Hands-On With Pi: Run Modes and JSONL Session Trees
The practical guide to earendil-works/pi: verified install and auth steps, all four run modes from TUI to SDK, JSONL session trees with branch, fork and resume, and the rough edges nobody advertises.
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A decision-intent comparison of pi, Claude Code, OpenCode and Codex CLI as your main agentic coding harness in late 2026, with a verified capability matrix and pick-X-if verdicts.
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