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I can't say I'm super into all the agents that are being created. But I do try to keep up here on HN and I can't say that I can remember any with this particul

by rsyring 29d ago

I can't say I'm super into all the agents that are being created. But I do try to keep up here on HN and I can't say that I can remember any with this particular set of attributes. In particular, aiming to be embeddable into other projects seems rather notable. At least, not something I've remembered of other projects that have made there way across the HN front page.

qudat 29d ago
Pi is a composition of libraries that can be used to build agents. That seems far more interesting than this “minimal” agent. This was written in zig and built by vercel. That’s the only notable characteristics about this project. All code agents look the same and this one is no different.
- slowin 28d ago
  I don't think Pi is tiny because it's written in typescript and requires a javascript runtime. I definitely want a "tiny" compiled agent with no runtime requirements. I don't think Zig is that great of a language for this, but it's better than typescript. I don't want to use Vercel software so will pass, but would love to see a more community driven effort.
  - kalms 28d ago
    What’s a better lang in your opinion?
    - rurban 27d ago
      Go or Rust or C++
  - sieste 27d ago
    For people working with small local models like Qwen 35b what's even more important us that the LLM is good at coding in the language in which the agent harness is written so that it can write skills. I really like pi but had a few instances now where Qwen wasn't able to extend it because it isn't very good at writing typescript. Does that sound familiar to anyone, and did you find any fixes?
verdverm 28d ago
Almost every harness has an SDK now, it seems part of the "mvp" at this point, both open and closed source https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/codex-sdk https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/codex-sdk https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview https://opencode.ai/docs/sdk/ https://opencode.ai/docs/sdk/ https://pi.dev/docs/latest/sdk https://pi.dev/docs/latest/sdk or if you want SDK first, my recommendation is https://adk.dev/ https://adk.dev/

by rsyring 29d ago

qudat 29d ago

Pi is a composition of libraries that can be used to build agents. That seems far more interesting than this “minimal” agent. This was written in zig and built by vercel. That’s the only notable characteristics about this project. All code agents look the same and this one is no different.

slowin 28d ago
I don't think Pi is tiny because it's written in typescript and requires a javascript runtime. I definitely want a "tiny" compiled agent with no runtime requirements. I don't think Zig is that great of a language for this, but it's better than typescript. I don't want to use Vercel software so will pass, but would love to see a more community driven effort.
- kalms 28d ago
  What’s a better lang in your opinion?
  - rurban 27d ago
    Go or Rust or C++
- sieste 27d ago
  For people working with small local models like Qwen 35b what's even more important us that the LLM is good at coding in the language in which the agent harness is written so that it can write skills. I really like pi but had a few instances now where Qwen wasn't able to extend it because it isn't very good at writing typescript. Does that sound familiar to anyone, and did you find any fixes?

verdverm 28d ago

Almost every harness has an SDK now, it seems part of the "mvp" at this point, both open and closed source https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/codex-sdk https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/codex-sdk https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview https://opencode.ai/docs/sdk/ https://opencode.ai/docs/sdk/ https://pi.dev/docs/latest/sdk https://pi.dev/docs/latest/sdk or if you want SDK first, my recommendation is https://adk.dev/ https://adk.dev/