Pi Coding Agent: The Claude Code Alternative That Builds Itself

Pi is a minimal coding agent that lets you choose the features Claude Code and Codex bake in for you. Nothing is forced, nothing is hidden, and you decide what your harness does. However, Pi runs with no safety rails by design, so the environment has to be the boundary.

In this video, we'll take a look at Pi, what it is, its features, how to get your own customized setup running, and why it works so well with isolated agentic environments like Beams.

Links
Beams 14-day trial - https://beams.run
Beams walkthrough video - https://youtu.be/NNczZTIFido
Pi - https://pi.dev
Teleport Community Slack - https://goteleport.com/community-slack/

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:45 3 ways to install Pi safely

02:10 Benefits of running Pi in a Beam

03:27 Pi install command

03:38 Key facts about Pi

04:51 Configuring Pi

06:24 Adding custom branding to Pi

07:22 Pi extensions

07:44 Creating Pi extensions

08:37 Skills, Prompts, Themes

09:30 Session Trees example

10:49 Publishing Beams app

11:24 Outro

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