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Description

Tiny Rust port of Pi — a ~4 MB statically-linked coding agent CLI for old/low-resource Linux boxes. OpenAI + Anthropic providers, streaming tool calls (read/write/edit/bash), JSONL sessions, ratatui TUI, Agent Skills, Claude Code-style hooks, -p print mode.

Installation

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open the source below and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

README

nanopi

**Tiny Rust port of [Pi](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi) — a ~4 MB coding-agent CLI for old / low-resource Linux boxes.**

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**English** · [简体中文](README_zh.md)


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Why nanopi?

  • 🪶 ~4 MB static binary — musl + LTO + strip, zero runtime deps
  • 🖥 Runs on ancient boxes — glibc 2.12+ (CentOS 6) or fully static musl
  • 🧬 PI-parity — mirrors Pi's surface: JSONL sessions, hooks, skills, -p, /fork, /resume
  • 🔌 Multi-provider — any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (DeepSeek, ollama, vLLM, …) plus native Anthropic
  • 🛠 Streaming tool callsread / write / edit / bash, rendered live in a ratatui TUI
  • 🪝 Claude Code hooksPreToolUse / PostToolUse / UserPromptSubmit shel