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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.
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Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans, session recovery after /clear and compaction, per-turn re-injection against context rot, deterministic completion gate. Manus-style. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Kiro, OpenCode and 60+ agents via the Agent Skills standard.
Visit ↗| Fact | pi | planning-with-files |
|---|---|---|
| Official SDK installs, 30 days | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| SDK evidence captured | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| GitHub stars | 81.5K | 25.9K |
| Forks | 10.1K | 2.2K |
| Open issues | 90 | 7 |
| Last commit | yesterday | 8 days ago |
| Primary language | TypeScript | Python |
| License | MIT License | 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 pi alternatives.