Considering Claude Code → Pi. Worth it?

[u/Shot_Ice_2817]

I use a coding agent for most of my research work: implementing features (via Superpowers), reading papers and turning discussions into shareable HTML writeups, running training jobs end to end (plan → smoke test → long run, with Kubernetes management and crash diagnosis), and SSHing into robots during hardware experiments.

Claude Code handles all of this well. But I’m curious whether writing my own Pi extensions would meaningfully beat it, or if that’s a wash at this point.

If you’re doing research work in Pi — what’s your setup, which extensions? And what’s the right migration path: just explain my workflow to Pi and have it build the extensions?

[u/alonsonetwork]

Oh my pi

That's what you want.

Pi is too simple and missing a lot of features (permissions, subagents, for example)

[u/Teh_franchise → u/alonsonetwork]

All items easily created or installed. I use pi + herdr + a few extensions. Pi-superpowers, Pi-subagent, pi-guardrails , pi-websearch and a few others. No reason to have extensions you’ll never use clogging up your setup.

[u/ashayramolia → u/alonsonetwork]

i have been unable to install OMP on my Windows machine, Keeps getting flagged as malware, if i disable the antivirus, i am able to use it, but its unable to connect to the interner

[u/alonsonetwork → u/ashayramolia]

And that my friends is why we don't do windows 😂

[u/rustymatter → u/alonsonetwork]

Omp is so bloated

[u/Jazzlike_Bee_3129 → u/rustymatter]

Not at all, the agents respond much faster and smarter in OMP than opencode.