Pi 1.3.0 released
A major release adding control over session sharing, improving cache handling with multiple models, and fixing tool management across resumed sessions.
What changed in 1.3.0
- Choose where
/shareuploads sessions: automatic, GitHub gist, or Radius viasessionShareDestinationsetting. - Thinking level changes on OpenAI GPT-6 and Kimi Code now preserve prompt cache; tools added mid-conversation no longer break cache.
- Resumed sessions restore their active tools, with
--toolsflags applied on top of them. - Thinking from previous models is dropped during model switches instead of appearing as text to new models.
- Multiple provider fixes for Anthropic Claude, Gemini, OpenCode, and other model compatibility issues.
Check before you update
models.jsonoverrides ofkimi-codingbase URL must now include/v1
Summarised by AgentGid from Earendil Inc. (created by Mario Zechner)'s official release notes on GitHub, as reported there; read the original before relying on it. Price, status and release dates come from our daily data.
Pi at a glance
| What it is | Minimal, extensible open-source coding agent harness with interactive TUI, print/JSON, RPC and SDK modes, created by Mario Zechner and now maintained by Earendil Inc. It supports 15+ model providers through API keys or … |
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| Latest version | 1.4.0, Oct 21, 2026. This page is about an earlier release. |
| Release pace | 13 stable releases in the last 30 days; 1.3.0 came 3 days after the previous one |
| Price | Free (OSS). Free and MIT-licensed; costs are those of the chosen model provider. Pi Durable (experimental) is also free per the 1.0 announcement. (checked Oct 5, 2026) |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 2.7M down 34.7% |
| Gid Score | 74 #7 in Terminal coding agents |
