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The article discusses the configuration and setup of a personal coding agent named pi, which is designed to work with a locally-hosted DeepSeek V4 Flash backend. It details the structure of the configuration files and how they interact with the pi agent's runtime settings. Additionally, it mentions the use of an orchestrator called Agent of Empires to monitor and manage tasks within the pi environment.
- ▪The pi coding agent is configured for a DeepSeek V4 Flash backend and allows live editing of files.
- ▪Key configuration files include settings for behavior rules, runtime settings, and a model registry.
- ▪Agent of Empires is used to monitor pi agents and manage tasks within a Docker sandbox.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/njbrake/dotpi/tree/main |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 17:38:22 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T17:50:02.698Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T17:50:02.698Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | -zJqqjANSbK2 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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pi-config Personal configuration for pi-coding-agent, tuned for a locally-hosted DeepSeek V4 Flash backend. Cloned to ~/dotpi/ and symlinked into ~/.pi/agent/ via install.sh. Editing files here edits them live in pi. Layout File Symlinks to Purpose AGENTS.md ~/.pi/agent/AGENTS.md Global context, loaded as a user-message block every session APPEND_SYSTEM.md ~/.pi/agent/APPEND_SYSTEM.md Behavior rules, appended to pi's built-in system prompt settings.json ~/.pi/agent/settings.json Pi runtime settings (retry, thinking level) models.json ~/.pi/agent/models.json Provider/model registry skills/ ~/.pi/agent/skills/ User-level slash commands prompts/ ~/.pi/agent/prompts/ Reusable prompt templates SYSTEM.md is deliberately not included; we want pi's defaults intact and only append to them.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.