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# pi-agent — AI agent skill for research automation

> Build with and use Pi, the minimal terminal coding harness.

# `pi-agent`

> Build with and use Pi, the minimal terminal coding harness. Use for installing Pi, configuring providers/models/settings/environment variables, creating Pi skills/extensions/packages/themes/prompt templates, embedding Pi through the SDK, integrating over RPC or JSON event streams, parsing sessions, running local models through the llama.cpp router, developing custom Pi providers and TUI components, or using ecosystem packages such as pi-subagents (delegation/orchestration), pi-mcp-adapter (MCP servers), pi-interview (interactive forms), and pi-web-access (web search, fetching, video understanding).

**Category:** [research-automation](/skills#research-automation) · **License:** MIT · **Version:** 1.4

## Install

```bash theme={null}
npx research-agent-skills install pi-agent
npx skills add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills --skill pi-agent
```

## When to use it

Build with and use Pi, the minimal terminal coding harness. Use for installing Pi, configuring providers/models/settings/environment variables, creating Pi skills/extensions/packages/themes/prompt templates, embedding Pi through the SDK, integrating over RPC or JSON event streams, parsing sessions, running local models through the llama.cpp router, developing custom Pi providers and TUI components, or using ecosystem packages such as pi-subagents (delegation/orchestration), pi-mcp-adapter (MCP servers), pi-interview (interactive forms), and pi-web-access (web search, fetching, video understanding).

## Full playbook

Read [SKILL.md](https://github.com/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills/blob/main/skills/pi-agent/SKILL.md) for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.