pi-agent-for-claude

Vendored from FazalAAli/pi-agent-for-claude (MIT, by Fazal Ali). Install with npx claude-code-templates@latest --mod integrations/pi-agent-for-claude, or from the author's marketplace as described upstream. Report issues upstream.

Runs pi as a native Claude Code subagent. It shows in the agent list, streams live, takes follow-ups, and opens in a tmux pane as a teammate, while the model behind it is anything pi can reach.

> Have pi run with model kimi k2 and summarize this repo.

⏺ pi-agent-for-claude:pi(Summarize repo)
  ⎿ ▸ bash: {"command":"ls -la && git log --oneline -10"}
    ▸ bash: {"command":"cat package.json"}
    This repo is an Expo/React Native calling app with a Go admin service...

    — answered by pi, openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k2

Claude Code starts a real subagent. The mod replaces only its model requests (turn.step) with a detached pi --mode json run and streams pi's text, thinking and tool calls. Hook calls get 10 s, so long runs span several steps chained through a no-op pi_progress tool. pi's final answer goes back as text, SubagentHandback, or SendMessage for teammates, with pi's real token usage.

Requirements

• Claude Code 2.1.275+ (the first build that dispatches agent.spawn and turn.step)
• pi, logged in to at least one provider
• Node.js, macOS or Linux
• tmux, for teammate panes

Usage

Ask Claude for pi in plain language. It picks the pi-agent-for-claude:pi agent type.

• Spawn: "Have pi review the error handling in src/api."
• Pick a model: "Have pi run with model kimi k2 and …". Claude adds a pi-model: <pattern> line, passed to pi --model. Without it pi uses its default. pi --list-models <search> lists models.
• Follow up: messages to a running pi agent continue its pi session and model.
• Teammate pane: name it. "Spawn a pi agent named piper to …"

Answers end with — answered by pi, <provider/model>, read from pi's own events. Trust it over what the model says about itself.

Security

pi runs its own read/bash/edit/write tools, outside Claude Code's permission prompts, tool policy and safety classifier. A pi agent can change files without asking. Restrict pi in its own config if that matters.

Limitations

• No hooks, no pi. With function hooks off, a "pi" agent runs as Claude Haiku and only replies that pi is not active. For teammates, the flag must be in settings env.
• Relies on undocumented engine behaviour: the 10 s hook budget, subagent transcript files under ~/.claude/projects/, exact engine message text, and ps to detect teammates.
• Cost figures for pi agents are pi's real token counts priced as Claude tokens. pi's provider bills them; check its billing.
• Teammate shutdown requests go to pi as plain messages. Close the pane yourself.

Install

npx claude-code-templates@latest --mod integrations/pi-agent-for-claude

Then add the flags to ~/.claude/settings.json, since shell variables alone don't reach teammate panes, and restart (inside tmux for teammate panes):

{
  "env": {
    "CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS": "1"
  },
  "teammateMode": "tmux"
}

It is written to .claude/skills/pi-agent-for-claude/, which Claude Code auto-loads as pi-agent-for-claude@skills-dir once the workspace is trusted. For one session with hot reload: claude --plugin-dir .claude/skills/pi-agent-for-claude. claude plugin validate .claude/skills/pi-agent-for-claude prints every event it hooks and every $ call it makes.

Requirements. Mods are on by default in Claude Code 2.1.287+, and this one needs 2.1.275+. Typed against Anthropic's declarations: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/mods