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Explore building a todo app in pi-mono monorepo

Session from pi-mono-sessions on Hugging Face by thomasmustier · MIT · condensed by Coders Talk

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GOAL

The developer wanted the agent to think through how to build the best possible todo app within the existing pi-mono monorepo, using its packages as building blocks.

  1. Prompt · +0
    Think through how to build the best ever todo app
  2. Agent did · +0m
    Read README.md, reasoned in a thinking block about which monorepo packages (pi-ai, pi-agent, pi-tui, pi-web-ui, pi-pods) to use for an AI-driven todo app
  3. Break · 1h 52m away, not counted
  4. Prompt · +0m
    Why do you have <thinking> blocks appearing inline?
  5. Prompt · +1m
    Which context files are loaded? Is CODEX.md loaded?
  6. Agent did · +1m
    Explained the thinking blocks are for reasoning before tool calls, listed loaded context files (two AGENTS.md files), then searched the repo with find and confirmed CODEX.md does not exist
  7. Outcome · +1m
    Session ended in exploratory Q&A about the agent's internals and context files; no todo app code was written
VERDICT

I got sidetracked asking the agent about its own thinking blocks and context files instead of pushing forward on the actual todo app design, so next time I'd hold off on meta-questions until after getting a concrete plan or prototype out of it. Nothing was really corrected here since no code was written, but clarifying what AGENTS.md files were loaded was useful context for future prompts.

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