alt Hacker NewsWhat issues are you facing with OpenCode?
I looked a bit into the reasoning for Pi’s design (https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/#to...) and, while it does seem to do a lot of things very well around extensibility, I do miss support for permissions, MCP and perhaps Todos and a server mode. OpenCode seems a lot more complete in that regard, but I can well imagine that people have adapted Pi for these use cases (OpenClaw seems to have all of these). So it’s definitely not out of the race yet, but I still appreciate OpenCodes relative seeming completeness in comparison.
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To be honest, none for what I am using for (organizing documents, cross-referencing information, writing summaries of documents). Howeverm it feels wrong using OpenCode for this. I somehow think there must be a better way of doing this.
> while it does seem to do a lot of things very well around extensibility,
https://pi.dev/packages
> I do miss support for permissions,
As soon as your agent can write and execute code, your permissions are just a security theater. If you care, just do proper sandboxing. If not, there are extensions for that.
> MCP
Again, Pi is extensible.
pi install pi-mcp-adapter
Now, you can connect to any mcp.
> and perhaps Todos
At least 10 different todo extensions. Pick which one you like. If you don't like any of them, ask Pi to write one for you.
> and a server mode.
Pi has rpc mode, which is a kind of server. If that's not enough, you could extend it.
> OpenCode seems a lot more complete in that regard,
Yes, but good luck working with Opencode if you don't like their plan-mode. Or todo support. And MCP. You pay their cost in complexity and tokens even if you don't use them or you don't like how they work.
> but I can well imagine that people have adapted Pi for these use cases (OpenClaw seems to have all of these). So it’s definitely not out of the race yet, but I still appreciate OpenCodes relative seeming completeness in comparison.
There's also an oh-my-pi fork if you want an out-of-the-box experience. Still, in my experience, nothing beats Pi in terms of customizability. It's the first piece of software that I can easily make completely to my liking. And I say that as a decade old Emacs user.