Pi Studio Dev

A Windows-first desktop workspace for the Pi coding agent.

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Pi Studio Dev is an independent fork of earendil-works/pi. It keeps the upstream agent runtime, coding-agent CLI, unified model API, and terminal UI while adding a full Electron desktop client for developers who bring their own model endpoints.

Highlights

• Parallel agent tasks — run several isolated conversations at once, keep background tasks streaming, and use managed Git worktrees when multiple tasks share a repository.
• Local, SSH, and WSL workspaces — use the same agent, Git, worktree, artifact, trust, and session flows across local and remote projects.
• Integrated Git workflow — inspect changes, stage and commit, push, manage branches, review diffs, and create or inspect pull requests without leaving the app.
• Bring your own models — configure OpenAI-compatible or custom endpoints, including quick presets for DeepSeek, Qwen, and Moonshot. The desktop backend ships without a built-in model catalog or first-party OAuth.
• Automations and durable sessions — schedule prompts, continue heartbeat conversations, track plans and goals, import or export sessions, and resume work from disk.
• Developer workbench — preview text, Markdown, HTML, images, PDF, CSV, TSV, and XLSX artifacts; use terminal tabs, image generation, computer control, and package-provided resources.
• Security boundaries — sandboxed rendering, context isolation, a strict IPC allowlist, tool approval modes, path containment, and project resources that are untrusted by default.
• English and Simplified Chinese — the interface follows the operating-system language and supports a manual override.

Download

Download PiStudio-Dev-*.exe and SHA256SUMS from the latest release.

Current builds target 64-bit Windows 10 and Windows 11 and are distributed as a portable executable. Builds are not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may show an unknown-publisher warning. Verify the downloaded file against SHA256SUMS before running it.

First run

1. Start Pi Studio Dev and add a model provider or custom endpoint in Settings.
2. Open a local folder, WSL distribution, or saved SSH host.
3. Review the workspace trust prompt and choose a tool-approval mode.
4. Create a task and start working. Additional tasks can continue in the background.

Development

Prerequisites: Node.js 22.19+, Bun 1.3+, and Git.

npm install --ignore-scripts
node node_modules/electron/install.js
npm run hydrate:model-data
npm --prefix packages/desktop start

See packages/desktop/README.md for the architecture, security model, development loop, and test commands.

Repository layout

Package	Purpose
packages/desktop	Pi Studio Dev Electron application
packages/coding-agent	Interactive coding-agent CLI and desktop backend
packages/agent	Agent loop, tools, and state management
packages/ai	Unified multi-provider LLM API
packages/tui	Terminal UI components and differential rendering
packages/server	Server and RPC infrastructure

Upstream and license

The fork-specific product surface is concentrated in packages/desktop with a small set of compatibility changes elsewhere in the monorepo. Upstream work remains credited to Earendil Works.

Pi Studio Dev is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Earendil Works. Licensed under the MIT License.