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Pi has been my goto agent for several months now, the project is great and basically runs everywhere. If you like Pi, I suggest taking a look at Deepseek Harness too.

For those using Claude, there's pi-claude-code[0] which is currently still the way to use Ant subs in Pi.

[0] https://github.com/earendil-works/pi-claude-code

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Is that still needed now that Agent SDK usage is included in subscriptions?

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

  Update October 7, 2026: Claude Max, Ultra, and Team plans now include monthly API credits. They cover the Claude API, Claude Managed Agents, and the Claude Agent SDK and claude -p when you run them with an API key from your linked Claude Console organization. Nothing changes for your plan: when you’re signed in with your Claude plan, the Claude Agent SDK and claude -p still draw from your subscription limits.

EDIT: I was mistaken. pi uses @anthropic-ai/sdk (the client for the Messages API), not @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk (the Agent SDK).

Does Pi support that natively?

Yes, in the sense that Ant credits some number of dollars worth of API tokens to your account and Pi has long been happy to use an Ant API key

The Agent SDK is using the Claude Code harness. The point of using Pi is to avoid using that harness entirely. It wouldn’t make sense to use the Agent SDK in Pi; you would essentially be driving a harness with another harness.

If you’ve used Codex before, then the Agent SDK is Anthropic’s equivalent of the Codex App Server, which is Codex running headlessly with a protocol to talk to it.

I use pi.dev since it came out and love it - and pi-claude-code is a great help since Anthropic turned of subscription access. But I also see every day how Claude Code tries to lure me back and often refers to its own skills which then don't work properly eg when spawing sub agents or asking me to run certain commands. Dark TUI Patterns.

dsh-claude-subscription provides a native interface in Deepseek Harness and works great https://github.com/apcamargo/dsh-claude-subscription

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