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PI-Desktop puts the pi agent harness behind a Rust host core, and gained 624 stars in a day
vastsa/PI-Desktop (2,602 stars, LGPL-3.0) is a local-first desktop app for coding agents. A React renderer with no Node integration talks to Electron, a Rust host core owns permissions, filesystem, SQLite and secrets, and the pi agent loop runs as a sidecar. It offers Agent, Plan (approval-gated) and Goal modes, subagents, MCP and plugins, and works with any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including Ollama. It shipped v0.14.6 on 2026-09-10 and led the TypeScript board at +624. The repo dates to 2023, so the name and history predate the current product.
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