Recently I started using pi as a harness and its flexibility has really changed the way I think about UI into agents. It feels like I took the red pill and have been liberated from the prescriptive nature of CC or codex. Instead of getting told here’s how you should approach ___, I pay much more attention to my workflows and when I feel friction I make the harness adapt and smooth it out.

For example, there are no shortage of web based uis for pi and they are all cool but I wanted a deep integration between artifacts and how I want to collaborate with the agent on them. So i built my own ui that mirrors what the pi tui sees. It’s chat based but has a deep integration with a GitHub style code review UI so I can leave review and comments whenever I want. Every agent message renders nicely in an annotatable markdown viewer so I don’t need an ask question tool and can more naturally get the agent on the same page as me. I want it to feel like I’m working with a colleague.

I don’t think these features are too unique but having full control over the experience is really nice. Flexibility over model provider, can tailor it to my work’s dev stack, and don’t need to worry about anyone breaking it with a million updates everyday.

Your perfect workflow can be realized in a day or so. You just need to go make it happen.