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pideck
Electron desktop app for managing pi, DSH and ACP coding agent sessions
- Stars
- 1.2k
- License
- MIT
- Last commit
- Nov 2026
- Last release
- Nov 2026
- Language
- TypeScript
20 on 3 Jun 20261,203 on 11 Nov 2026
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Overview
PiDeck is an Electron and TypeScript desktop shell that runs one `pi --mode rpc` process per session across multiple local projects. It also embeds the DeepSeek Harness (DSH) host and acts as an ACP client for external agent CLIs, with 15 presets. It adds a file tree, Git panel, built-in terminal, visual editing of pi's models.json, auth.json and settings.json, and import of Codex and Claude sessions.
Who it is for: Developers running several local coding agent sessions on the desktop
Strengths
- One window for pi, DSH and ACP sessions, with 15 ACP CLI presets such as Gemini CLI and Codex CLI
- Does not fork pi: sessions and tools stay native, communicating over stdio JSON-RPC
- Edits pi config files visually and tests provider connections
- Ships Windows, macOS and Linux installers, plus a LAN web UI for phone clients
Weaknesses
- Requires a separately installed `pi` CLI on PATH with providers already configured
- README labels the project experimental
- Sends anonymous heartbeat usage stats by default; opt-out is in settings
- README mixes in unrelated promotion (reseller shop, sponsor QR codes) and is mostly in Chinese
What it needs
- no GPU
- Needs pi CLI, Node.js 20+ (source builds), npm
- Models: pi providers via models.json, DeepSeek models (DSH), ACP CLIs (Gemini, Claude, Codex, Kimi, Qwen, etc.), OpenAI-compatible image generation
What changed
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