If someone has never used Pi, what's a good starting point where someone took Pi and started adding some extensions etc to get to that minimal-but-useful-and-productive-for-coding state? Is there such recipe/writeup?
Only when you genuinely find a feature is missing should you write one yourself or have Pi write an extension or skill for you.
Don't use extensions written by others, after all, those extensions were also vibe-coded.
It really doesn't take much for it to be useful, maybe something to search the web?
If you want you can just tell it to write you extensions too, like one to wrap curl so it can get to the web easier for instance. Or just tell it to use curl, really up to you. Just an example to point out: like, do whatever, it's very flexible.
I'm doing quite well with just a "todos" extension, and a "plan" prompt template (doesn't enforce read only tool usage, but prompts to build todos and discuss before doing anything).
I will probably try out some subagent systems soon, but I'm doing surprisingly well without them.
If you want a more tricked out "starter pack" there's oh-my-pi or lazypi and maybe a few others. But worth being careful what you install because 1. A full pack of extensions can destroy the minimalism of pi 2. Random extentions are a security nightmare.
You could try ohmypi but it sort of misses the point.
Why not just install nicopreme's pi-subagents and pi-web-access and then install whatever else you need when you find it's missing?