Harness · earendil-works/pi
Pi
A radically minimal terminal coding harness: it advertises a sub-1,000-token system prompt and lazy-loaded skills, where most agents carry several thousand. Its whole bet is that context economy beats a big scaffold.
aeqi builds one of the harnesses measured here. This board is in method preview and pre-registration — no performance scores are published yet, and we lead with our own losses, not our wins. Read the method & charter →
Result: not yet measured
The facts
- Maintainer
- earendil-works
- Source
- earendil-works/pi
- License
- MIT
- Category
- Coding harness
- Headless run
- Yes — `pi -p` (print) / `--mode json` (structured per-step events)
- Native OpenRouter
- — can be pinned to one shared model
- Determinism notes
- npm-pinnable to an exact version. BYOK, provider-agnostic by design — a clean apples-to-apples entrant.
Where it sits
Performance scores land here only with published traces, under the pre-registered method. Until then, this profile is the fair-run readiness check: can we start Pi headless and pin it to one shared model to isolate the scaffold?