Maybe related to this minimalism, Pi doesn't come with most of the tools an LLM needs to function efficiently or effectively. I get that a blank slate is the paradigm, and you can add whatever you want, but it's too blank IMO.

Read through it an I'm curious whether setting the date and cmd on every system prompt call will cause the cache to invalidate.

I guess the cache would only be invalid if the day changed or the root directory, which would technically happen infrequently enough.

If you really want a minimal agent that you heavily customize, just skip pi (130+ transitive dependencies on the "minimal" pi-coder package) and write your own. You learn a bunch, and it's not hard. You can even ask another LLM to help you get started.

I was here looking for this comment = )