Poolside

Poolside

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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
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

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
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

Free
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

Free
Free Version
Free Trial

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
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Pi
United States
pi.dev/

Company Information

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

Alternatives

Amp

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Alternatives

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Claude Code

Anthropic
Amp

Amp

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Laguna XS.2

Laguna XS.2

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Cline

Cline

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

Bitbucket
Eclipse IDE
GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 Pro
GPT-5.6 Luna
GitHub
Graphify
Grok
IntelliJ IDEA
JSON
Kimi K2.5
Kimi K2.7 Code
Laguna XS 2.1
Laguna XS.2
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.7
Ollama
OpenAI
Slack
Superwhisper

Integrations

Bitbucket
Eclipse IDE
GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 Pro
GPT-5.6 Luna
GitHub
Graphify
Grok
IntelliJ IDEA
JSON
Kimi K2.5
Kimi K2.7 Code
Laguna XS 2.1
Laguna XS.2
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.7
Ollama
OpenAI
Slack
Superwhisper
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