pi-rs: a Rust port of the pi coding agent ships as a single binary, no Node.js needed
jasonkneen · x · 2026-10-31
Developer lassejlv released and shared pi-rs, a Rust port of pi, the minimal extensible coding agent harness, noting the Rust code was written by Opus 5.5.
Key points:
- Builds a single native pi binary with the same CLI, terminal UI, on-disk formats (sessions, settings, auth.json, models.json), RPC protocol and extension API as the TypeScript version.
- No Node.js or Bun needed at runtime; TypeScript extensions run on an embedded JavaScript engine.
- Requires Rust 1.88+; installable via cargo build --release or cargo install.
- 87 stars, 12 forks, 448 commits, with PORTING.md and porting-status docs.
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