<a href="https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/" rel="nofollow">https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/They explicitly said no MCP and no fullscreen TUI, which makes it minimal and attracts many people.
Adding MCP and code mode seems so antithetical to the minimal ethos, I almost would believe they got incentives from Jen, but I don't want to be that cynical.
I agree! MCP should be a command line tool wrapper than can be used from any minimal agent without bloating context if you don't need it.
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They explicitly said no MCP and no fullscreen TUI, which makes it minimal and attracts many people.
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