Poolside

Poolside

Poolside.ai
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About

Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness built to adapt to developer workflows instead of forcing developers to adapt to it. It ships with powerful defaults, but stays intentionally small and aggressively extensible, letting users customize Pi with extensions, skills, prompt templates, themes, and shareable packages from npm or git. If a team needs a command, tool, provider, workflow, or UI tweak, they can ask Pi to build it, manipulate it in place, reload, and keep going. Pi supports interactive, print/JSON, RPC, and SDK modes, making it usable as a full terminal UI, a scriptable command, a JSON event stream, or an embeddable agent harness. It works with 15+ providers and hundreds of models, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Azure, Bedrock, Mistral, Groq, Cerebras, xAI, Hugging Face, Kimi For Coding, MiniMax, OpenRouter, Ollama, and more, with mid-session model switching.

About

Poolside is an AI coding agent platform that works directly within the tools developers already use, including CLI, VS Code, Visual Studio, Zed, JetBrains, web, and headless environments. The platform enables developers to run agents from the terminal, inside their IDE, through a browser, or within CI/CD pipelines. Poolside supports sandboxed execution, allowing code to be tested and validated in isolated environments before changes affect a codebase. Its fine-grained permission controls let teams decide exactly what agents can read, write, run, or access. The platform also provides version control for agent work, traceability, observability, usage metrics, and centralized governance through the Poolside Console. By combining developer-native integrations with enterprise controls, Poolside helps engineering teams automate coding, testing, review, and development workflows safely.

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Supported
Cloud Not Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Developers and AI tool builders who want a minimal, extensible terminal coding agent they can customize, script, embed, and adapt to their own workflows

Audience

Poolside is ideal for software developers, engineering teams, platform teams, DevOps leaders, and enterprises that want secure AI coding agents integrated into their existing development tools and workflows

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

Free
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

Free
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Pi Agent looks really appealing from a developer’s point of view because it is simple, open-source, and focused on the actual mechanics of building coding agents. It is not trying to be a giant all-in-one platform. It gives you the core pieces: a unified LLM API, an agent loop, a terminal UI, and a coding-agent CLI. I especially like the context-engineering approach. Being able to control project instructions with AGENTS.md, customize the system prompt with SYSTEM.md, and manage long sessions through compaction makes Pi feel built for developers who actually understand how fragile agent context can be. The open-source MIT license is a big plus too. If I am building serious agent workflows, I want to inspect the harness, modify it, swap models, and understand what is happening under the hood instead of being locked into a black-box coding assistant.

Cons

  • Pi Agent is probably not the best fit for someone who wants a polished, fully managed AI coding product out of the box. It feels more like a toolkit for developers who are comfortable configuring their own workflows, choosing models, and tuning the agent behavior. I would also want to test reliability carefully before using it on production repos. Coding agents can make impressive changes, but they can also get stuck, over-edit files, miss project conventions, or make subtle mistakes if the context and guardrails are not set up well. The simplicity is a strength, but it also means you may need to bring more of your own infrastructure, evals, permissions, and safety controls.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Pi
United States
pi.dev/

Company Information

Poolside.ai
Founded: 2023
United States
www.poolside.ai/

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

Claude Fable 5 Supported
Claude Fable 5.5 Supported
Claude Opus 5.5 Supported
GLM-5.3-Flash Supported
GPT-5.5 Pro Supported
GPT-6 Luna Supported
GPT-6.1 Sol Supported
GitLab Not Supported
Grok Supported
HOL Guard Supported
Hugging Face Supported
Laguna M.1 Not Supported
Laguna S 2.1 Not Supported
Linear Not Supported
Microsoft Azure Supported
Nativ Supported
Ollama Supported
OpenRouter Supported
Visual Studio Not Supported

Integrations

Claude Fable 5 Not Supported
Claude Fable 5.5 Not Supported
Claude Opus 5.5 Not Supported
GLM-5.3-Flash Not Supported
GPT-5.5 Pro Not Supported
GPT-6 Luna Not Supported
GPT-6.1 Sol Not Supported
GitLab Supported
Grok Not Supported
HOL Guard Not Supported
Hugging Face Not Supported
Laguna M.1 Supported
Laguna S 2.1 Supported
Linear Supported
Microsoft Azure Not Supported
Nativ Not Supported
Ollama Not Supported
OpenRouter Not Supported
Visual Studio Supported
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