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by mft_ 20 days ago
The main ones missed immediately were web access/search. Then the to-do list features (it was a nice surprise to try OpenCode and see this working immediately.). There were a couple of other niggles but it was a few months ago. Also, this may not be common, but it seemed to struggle to edit effectively (driven by Qwen 3.6 35b/27b) and often rewrote whole files instead.
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Gotcha, I feel like model or provider-specific installs would be a nice QoL improvement in that case. Presumably, part of this issue (beyond the ethos of minimalism) is the aim of shipping shipping an agnostic toolset. For myself, im openai-first, and of course that pushes me to favor their hosted tools (in this case web search), and their native CPT/RL'd stuff (Ie apply-patch).

Though, imo, the fact that pi maintains its "we only include the bare minimum!" statement is part of the draw for me. Especially considering that im in an enterprise env; being able to internally share custom implementations of out-of-the-box Codex/CC stuff is really nice.

I do wonder how they'd go about shipping a default web search tool. Big problem there is the lethal trifecta. Shipping something that arbitrarily allows untrusted content to be retrieved non-deterministically I'm sure is a long conversation on Pi's end. Pushing it off to the user to decide is easy.