Comment by NichoPaolucci
5 days ago
I had no idea pi didn't support MCP! I'm a new user, I just started messing around with it. I was getting my tooling up and running and tried to get one of my database MCPs working (Which, in retrospect, seemed a little painful - but I guess I was under the assumption that it was my responsibility to build + maintain those connections).
Another retrospect note, "No MCP" appears to be the first icon on their front page - not sure how I missed that.
Imagine my surprise reading this!
Pi doesn't even support a permissions model. It's extremely barebones, you're expected to customize basically everything.
I was enticed by the promise of it being barebones but I still found it too bloated
So I cut out a lot of functionality in my own fork
https://github.com/Pyrolistical/mi
I took “expected to customize basically everything” to heart
... and after using it for a while you might end up forgetting most of the extra stuff you thought you needed in the first place. That's what happened to me and I've never looked back and still am a happy Pi user (https://a.l3x.in/ai if you're curious)
I have already basically removed any extensions I had installed. There are still a couple, but I am going to remove those as well. Except maybe a web search one as that is something I use often. Going to remove all skills and anything else as well. I am a simple man when it comes to agent programming.