Package Details: pi-coding-agent 0.79.1-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/pi-coding-agent.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: pi-coding-agent
Description: A terminal-based coding agent with multi-model support, mid-session model switching, and a simple CLI for headless coding tasks
Upstream URL: https://pi.dev/
Licenses: MIT
Submitter: dcreager
Maintainer: dcreager
Last Packager: dcreager
Votes: 12
Popularity: 4.14
First Submitted: 2025-12-31 13:58 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-06-10 13:51 (UTC)

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bugabinga commented on 2026-05-21 19:59 (UTC)

@clouedoc

I finally found my preferred fix! In ~/.pi/agent/settings.json add: json "npmCommand": [ "npm", "--prefix", "/home/<your user name>/.local" ] Pi runs roughly:

text npm --prefix /home/<your user name>/.local install -g pi-agent-flow

dcreager commented on 2026-05-15 19:16 (UTC)

@uriel Good call, done!

uriel commented on 2026-05-15 16:58 (UTC)

Updating the url from: https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono to: https://github.com/earendil-works/pi

might be a wise idea even though github reserves old usernames

paulodiovani commented on 2026-05-01 16:22 (UTC)

nitpick: the new website is https://pi.dev

bugabinga commented on 2026-04-30 06:10 (UTC)

@clouedoc thanks, a prefix for npm sounds perfect to me. Installing global npm packages with sudo is just... too scary to me.

@korbireischl thanks for the tip. I use mise right now and configured pi to use a node runtime via that. I will look into that.

korbireischl commented on 2026-04-22 16:23 (UTC)

@clouedoc @bugabinga If you use a node manager like nvm or fnm, node and global packages are installed in your home directory. So pi install npm:xxx won’t run into permission issues.

clouedoc commented on 2026-04-17 11:50 (UTC)

@bugabinga I figured out a clean fix for the permission issue.

The problem is that pi install npm:xxx runs npm install -g under the hood, which targets /usr/lib/node_modules/ (which is only writeable by root).

The fix is to redirect npm's global prefix to a user-owned directory:

bash mkdir -p ~/.npm-global npm config set prefix ~/.npm-global

Then add ~/.npm-global/bin to your PATH. For fish:

fish fish_add_path ~/.npm-global/bin

For bash/zsh, add to your .bashrc / .zshrc:

bash export PATH="$HOME/.npm-global/bin:$PATH"

After that, pi install npm:xxx just works.

clouedoc commented on 2026-04-15 04:07 (UTC)

@bugabinga I've been having the same issue with extensions.

I work around this (somewhat) by installing directly from github (i.e. pi install https://github.com/qmx/pi-plan-mode)

Some extensions seem to not work super well with this approach. I am not sure how to go about it.

bugabinga commented on 2026-04-12 13:47 (UTC)

Hi! How do you guys use pi extensions with this package? When I use pi install ... it tries to install into /usr/lib/node_modules and fails for obvious reasons.

Have I messed something up or misunderstood?

clouedoc commented on 2026-04-08 13:23 (UTC)

Thanks! I like having a human testing&running stuff before it lands on my laptop:)

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