I found the nice part of Pi was the plugin system and the ability to hook into any part of the agentic loop. But minimalism is a net negative in my experience.

I found the nice part of Pi was the plugin system and the ability to hook into any part of the agentic loop. But minimalism is a net negative in my experience. What you really want is a harness that meets the expectations of the model and steers it in the right direction. There are also a ton of small mechanical things a harness can handle that make the whole process much smoother. A really simple example is auto balancing parens. Even frontier models like Claude still struggle with this. Often the model will end up writing a python script to figure out where the mismatch is, and then generate a new version of the code. All of that simply wastes tokens and eats up context on a task that could've been accomplished completely mechanically. The approach I took with dirge, is to put the model in a loop where it has clearly defined tasks, and the harness handles any repairs that can be done automatically. And I used Janet to provide a plugin system based on what Pi is doing. You get a batteries included experience out of the box, and you can customize it to fit a specific project using plugins if needed. https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-06-08-dirge-code.html https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-06-08-dirge-code.html