Pi community ships 5 agent-team plugins as official sub-agents stay absent; Pi 0.87 splits session from context

solyarisoftware · x · 2026-09-22

While Pi officially refuses to build sub-agents, the community has produced a set of agent-team plugins. The author picks 5 highlights:

pi-agent-teams: persistent teammates with a shared task board and inter-agent messaging, not one-shot sub-agents
pi-agentteam: classic Leader + Teammates (Researcher/Planner/Implementer)
pi-herdsman: agents can nest further agents, verging on real "org structure"
pi-crew: full multi-agent workflows with Teams, parallel execution, Worktrees, Review, Research, and judgment on whether a task merits multi-agent
pi-core-subagent: low-level DAG-based scheduling with background runs, mailboxes, and agent communication

Recommended starting combo: pi-agent-teams + pi-crew + pi-core-subagent.

The quoted thread also covers Pi 0.87.0's architecture change: a new ContextEditEntry lets expired tool results and error logs drop out of the model's context while the raw session and chat history stay intact — "history persists, the model selectively forgets." SessionManager becomes the single source of truth for context, and extensions can now process the full transcript including the system message before each request, enabling memory, pruning, and custom compression plugins. Core idea: Session = full experience, Context = current view.

Original post →

Pi community ships 5 agent-team plugins as official sub-agents stay absent; Pi 0.87 splits session from context

More from coding & agent