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Pi, Minimal and Performant

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Earendil
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articleX31 Jul 2026

How I Run the Pi Coding Agent on Cloudflare

I recently came across a tweet about Pi's programmatic APIs. I knew Pi as a coding agent, but its portable internals caught my attention.

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We rewrote our agent to run entirely in a Durable Object with Pi, Agents SDK and Code Mode

We recently finished moving the camelAI agent off of virtual machines.

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articleTom23 Jul 2026

I gave Pi one tool

I turned code mode into a programmable Pi extension. Then it used itself to build most of the runtime.

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Prompt Caching In Agents

How prompt caching shapes the cost, latency, tools, and architecture of coding agents, and what Pi does to keep cache behavior visible.

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