For me, pi is the epitome of simple, elegant software. Its maintainers embue true craftmanship into the harness. It allows for endless customization and tinkering. My pi harness truly feels like my own. It frees me from lock-in from any of the multitude of AI companies vying for my wallet and data.
At the same time, its minimal approach leaves certain aspects of a standard "agentic engineering" environment lacking. This also is its beauty, us, the enthusiastic community of pi users, can build and use our tooling to satisfy our workflow. I consider agent sandboxing, native clients, rbac session sharing, and surface automation (namely browser and native apps) to comprise the minimal agentic engineering environment that should be used for software engineers in an organization.
pi pod is an ongoing effort to consolidate all of this capability in a simple and elegant software built around and on top of pi. Using pi pod should feel no different from using the pi harness that you already have spent countless hours perfecting. pi pod aims to seamlessly run your pi in an isolated sandbox with minimal, carefully curated tooling to get out the way and give you the boring stuff you need.
The self-hosted edition is designed to be simple to run yourself. I hope that anyone with an interest in pi will take a look at the available repository and spin it up on their own. Self-hosting of course allows for true ownership and privacy, making this project yours to own and customize to your liking. Self-hosting also is a great option for businesses who want their entire agentic environment in their preferred data center.
The hosted service is coming soon. It is not available yet: there are no hosted accounts, trials, or subscriptions today. The intended v1 offer is a 7-day, card-required Standard trial with 10 active hours ($20/month after unless canceled), or paid Pro at $50/month. Intended hosted workstation pricing and trial terms are on the billing page.
I hope that you will take a look at the project, make it your own, and even endeavor to improve upon it. This has been a labor of love for pi and working with agents. Feel free to reach out with any comments or feedback on the GitHub repository or by email at evan at pipod dot dev. I hope for engaging and fruitful discussion as we work together to put form to the continually changing art of software development.
- Evan