Pi beginners
You want a clear path from installation and configuration to using Pi confidently on real development tasks.
Pi - The Practical Guide
Learn how to use the Pi coding agent - how to make it yours by configuring and extending it, and how to build real projects by leveraging its basic and advanced features.
Course Overview
About This Course
Pi is deliberately minimal and highly extensible—but that freedom can make the first steps less obvious. You need to choose a model, understand its security model, manage sessions and context, and decide which customizations actually improve your workflow.
This course gives you a practical path from setup to daily use. You’ll configure Pi, work with files and terminal commands, guide it through real project tasks, add useful packages and AGENTS.md instructions, and create reusable agent skills, prompt templates, and Pi extensions.
By the end, you’ll know how to shape Pi into the coding agent you want: steer and queue work, plan without a built-in Plan Mode, manage longer sessions with clones, forks, trees and compaction, and even use Pi to configure and extend itself.
What You'll Learn
You’ll learn how to use Pi’s minimal core, practical workflows, extensibility features, and advanced session tools to build a coding-agent setup that fits the way you work.
Set up and configure Pi
Install Pi, connect a supported AI model, choose models and thinking levels, and manage global or project-specific settings so your setup matches your workflow.
Use Pi safely and deliberately
Understand Pi’s security model, use project trust correctly, restrict available tools, and optionally run Pi in a Docker container when you want more isolation.
Master everyday Pi workflows
Reference files, run terminal commands, work through real project tasks, plan before implementation, and manage the context that Pi needs to produce useful results.
Build a practical Pi setup
Explore packages that add web access, guardrails, or subagents, and use concise local or global
AGENTS.mdfiles to steer Pi across sessions.Extend and customize Pi
Create reusable agent skills and prompt templates, then build Pi extensions that can add tools, commands, UI behavior, permission checks, and other custom capabilities.
Advanced session management
Steer or queue messages, resume and organize work, clone or fork sessions, navigate session trees, and use summaries or compaction to keep context under control.
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See enrollment optionsPrerequisites
Basic programming experience is required.
To follow along, you’ll need Pi installed and access to a supported AI model through a subscription, API key, or local model setup.
No prior Pi experience is required.
Who Is This Course For?
AI coding-agent users
You already use tools like Claude Code or Codex and want to explore a more minimal, configurable alternative that you can adapt to your own workflow.
Developers who want more control
You want to go beyond basic prompting and build a tailored agent setup with packages, skills, prompt templates, extensions, and deliberate session management.
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