--- title: Pi: Open-Source AI Agent Terminal Set-Up | daily.dev description: Pi (pie.dev) is a minimal, fully open-source AI agent that runs in the terminal, designed around simplicity rather than feature bloat. Unlike Claude Code or... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pi-open-source-ai-agent-terminal-set-up-l59b0lbfg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Pi: Open-Source AI Agent Terminal Set-Up | daily.dev og:description: Pi (pie.dev) is a minimal, fully open-source AI agent that runs in the terminal, designed around simplicity rather than feature bloat. Unlike Claude Code or... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pi-open-source-ai-agent-terminal-set-up-l59b0lbfg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/l59B0LbFg.png og:image:alt: Pi: Open-Source AI Agent Terminal Set-Up og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pi: Open-Source AI Agent Terminal Set-Up **[Christian Lempa](https://daily.dev/sources/christianlempa)** · 19 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Pi (pie.dev) is a minimal, fully open-source AI agent that runs in the terminal, designed around simplicity rather than feature bloat. Unlike Claude Code or Codex CLI, it has no MCP setup, no sub-agents, and no permission pop-ups — it executes plain CLI commands directly. It supports 15+ LLM providers including local models via LM Studio or Ollama, and uses OAuth or API keys. Key features include an agents.md context file for project-specific instructions, custom slash-command prompts defined as markdown files, session management with tree view and forking, context compaction for long sessions, and shell passthrough via the ! prefix. The video walks through installation, provider setup, practical use cases like Docker inspection and Terraform/OpenTofu infrastructure management, and warns that the lack of guardrails means commands execute immediately without confirmation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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