heyhuynhgiabuu/openpi

OpenPi is a desktop app that gives you a graphical workbench for Pi, an open source coding agent built by Earendil Works. Rather than reimplementing Pi's agent logic, OpenPi wraps the existing Pi SDK inside an Electron application and adds a desktop interface around it: session lists, agent activity, file search, source control, and terminals. The project draws a clear line between three parts. The visible window, called the renderer, only displays information and collects your clicks and typed input. It cannot touch your files, run shell commands, or access Git directly. Instead, those privileged actions are handled by Electron's main process, which validates every request before performing it. The actual coding agent behavior, such as how it plans steps, manages conversation history, or talks to AI models, stays inside the Pi SDK itself, which OpenPi does not modify. What you get in the current beta includes a sidebar for browsing Pi sessions grouped by workspace, a model picker, a conversation view with tool activity and cost tracking, and a command palette, opened with Shift+Cmd+P, for quickly jumping between files, commands, and sessions. There is also a settings area covering extensions, prompts, themes, and keybindings, plus a built in Git panel with a file tree, search, and a split diff viewer, and a terminal panel for running commands. macOS users can install it with Homebrew using a cask, though the app is not yet notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper may block the first launch until you manually remove a quarantine flag with a terminal command. Windows code signing is not set up either. Building from source requires Node.js 22 or newer and npm, after which you clone the repo and run a few npm scripts to develop, test, and package the app. OpenPi is best suited for developers who already use or are curious about the Pi coding agent and want a native desktop shell around it rather than a terminal only workflow. It is released under the MIT license.