> 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.