# Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

<https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/>

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## What Jamie wrote

OpenClaw uses this coding agent to create software for itself.

> Pi is interesting to me because of two main reasons:
> 
> - First of all, it has a tiny core. It has the shortest system prompt of any agent that I'm aware of and it only has four tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash.
> - The second thing is that it makes up for its tiny core by providing an extension system that also allows extensions to persist state into sessions, which is incredibly powerful.

Very interesting read on how Pi is different in approach to other coding agents.

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