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Programmatic video for coding agents — HTML to video on your laptop. Turn HTML, CSS & data into real MP4s with pluggable render engines, 21 templates, AI soundtrack. Apache-2.0, no per-render fees. An official project by the Open Design team.
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AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI. pi is open source, written primarily in TypeScript, released under MIT License. Its repository has 80.8K GitHub stars and 10K forks, and was last committed to within the last two weeks. Niched places it in AI coding assistants & agents.
Visit ↗| Fact | html-video | pi |
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| Official SDK installs, 30 days | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| SDK evidence captured | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| GitHub stars | 4.2K | 81.5K |
| Forks | 530 | 10.1K |
| Open issues | 51 | 90 |
| Last commit | 1 months ago | yesterday |
| Primary language | HTML | TypeScript |
| License | Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing model | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| Founded | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| Categories | AI coding assistants & agents | AI coding assistants & agents |
Both products are placed in AI coding assistants & agents. A category organises the market; it carries no score. See all html-video alternatives.