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by girvo 77 days ago
> I was prototyping something with pi under the hood for a personal project, going to switch off it now.

For what it's worth, it's pretty straightforward to recreate it I found, at least it's base idea. Readline w/ nice output is a bit of a pain, but still, doable, and if you don't care about that part of it, then the overall agent loop that you'd build on top of? You could build it, I promise.

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What you are suggesting might sound difficult to some people, it is possible: in the last week I co-wrote (with Antigravity with Claude as the backend) an Emacs package for agentic coding that also just uses ‘rg’ for finding relevant code for the context, call out to a model, and handle creating a diff with merging tools. I love using my own code that provides inside Emacs vibe coding and I would suggest others try building the same thing.

EDIT: here is a link of what I wrote just for my own use: https://github.com/mark-watson/coding-agent

Exactly! The actual base loop of these agents is remarkably simple.

https://github.com/girvo/girvent this is my silly one :)

looks nice!